COLLECTIVELY, WE ARE...
Lovingly Cacao-seduced citizens of Mama Earth who've traveled back to the source to pay it forward.
Intentionally leaving the Earth just a bit better way than we found it- we find ourselves moving from the children working with this plant in the forms of treats- now to being heart-led adults (still with a connection to that inner-child,) sitting in ceremony and doing the work. In this space of ceremony is where it changed our lives forever (well- to this moment at least), and for this is why we work and wish to pass it on... Hello! It is good to be with you!
...a thriving group of life-long land stewarding Cacao farmers, in several remote regions of Guatemala.
The Ho.Wo.Co. is honored to co-operate with folks who cultivate this heart medicine with the utmost care- a focus on organic growing, permaculture principles & in many cases, agro-forest reforestation efforts.
...a women's collective- mostly single mothers- who've come together to share in empowerment & resource.
In the Village of Tzununá, these strong Mayan women are cultivating practices once lost in their heritage & are rising up to give their families a different life. We're checking in often to make sure HWco is an integral part of that.
...with us. To sit with the Holy Wow is to become an integral strand in the web that continues the tapestry. Through medicine, intention and down-right quantum-Earth reality, we truly are connected in this on-going ceremony of life.
We invite you to the Holy W.O.W. (WithOut Words) state of being. The place that whispers of how to answer unique & ever-changing calls to make each moment that may pass before us a little better because it did.
This very special plant has courted the homosapien in us.
With it’s undeniably rich & bittersweet healing properties, Theobroma Cacao has courted the human to form cooperatives of farmers who carefully grow her in life-affirming soils the world-wide with distribution to every
single corner of this round planet.
Indeed, this plant-being has- like bosom whoos baby- whooed this world wide open. In turn we propagate & spread her bean the world over. We'll speak for ourselves to say we're over-joyed to be seduced to be in service to a suchness so tasteful.
The short of the long of it- The arrival of these beans, these farms, these regions. & how they arrive to you...
Early on the cacao-scout journey, we learn; just as every region of a place will offer a slight twist of the tongue, every region will offer a unique bean-seed too- say near the Pacific Coast or up in the jungles of the north- each carries variable qualitative profiles such as taste, butter content & more. Diversity of sourcing important, this nature of the-taste-of-a-place proved a guiding helper to the quest at hand.
Little did we know how difficult finding the ideal farms would be...
Those cultivating on criteria such as Organic, Permaculture/Agroforest-based systems, all-the-while operating collectively and taking care of the helping hands. In short, those with reciprocal relations* to all along the way... With whispers in our ears, we wandered in question- do these relationships still exist? Must we compromise?
The answer came not-with-standing a satchelful of set-backs & step-forths.
By way of scrawled-map leads from kind farmers & collectives, speaking on regions best known for quality Cacao growth, etc, we arrived in relation to a few epic cacao farm collectives from 4 regions throughout Guatemala – namely... Las Victorias, Rio Dulce, Suchitepéquez, and Alta Verapaz.
Oh, and this is Moisés, one of the unsung hero's in our group. He is often overlooked when we speak of our story, so in this here and now, we don't wish to do that. Moises is our man behind the scenes who helps to move the heavy Cacao, who helps to keep the wheels turning, who roasts the beans to perfection every morning, and who is the right-hand man to this operation that couldn't really function without him. Thanks so much Moisés!!!
And so, that's it for now! A brief look at us.
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We send so much love and thanks to you.
With gratitude for your support and for allowing us to support you, we say Goodbye for now!