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Poudre de cacao dans un bol noir, éclats de cacao et cabosse ouverte sur ardoise

Wooden bowl of cocoa powder resting on beans

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Cacao powder

Origine

Öko Caribe · Dominican Republic

Préparation

Drinks · pâtisserie · hot cacao

Dosage

1 to 2 tablespoons

€8,00

In stock · Ships within 24 to 72 hours

Dispatched Monday and Thursday

The terroir

Pulverised cacao press cake, from Öko Caribe beans (Dominican Republic, Duarte province): Trinitario, Nacional and Criollo.

Country Dominican Republic

Harvest March to August

Fermentation Five to six days, in wooden boxes

Drying About ten days, under tunnels

Cacao powder · Öko Caribe Dominican Republic125 gr

€8,00

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Territory

Pimentel, in the Duarte region

Öko Caribe works in the north-east of the Dominican Republic, in the Duarte region, around San Francisco de Macorís. The company is based in Pimentel, on the road to Nagua. Some hundred and eighty smallholders from Pimentel and the surrounding area sell it their cacao. Their farms average two hectares. They also grow plantain, avocado and sapodilla. The cacao trees are Trinitario and Criollo.

The people

A company, two founders

Öko Caribe was founded in 2006. Its name means “eco-Caribbean”. Its founders, Adriano and Gualberto, wanted to raise the standard of cacao quality. They were convinced that, to get there, they had to step away from common practice. Öko Caribe trains the growers in farming practices and supports them towards organic certification.

2006Year founded

A young woman and a young man smile in a cacao grove, their arms full of yellow, orange and red pods

Five women sort dried beans on a wooden table, in front of a yellow Öko Caribe sack

Building front with the Öko Caribe sign, two murals of the cacao harvest and bougainvillea in flower

The harvest, in the Öko Caribe networkSorting, by handThe Öko Caribe building, with its murals

Fresh beans wrapped in their white pulp — The fresh beans, still in their pulp · Öko Caribe · Crafting Markets

The craft

Less than six hours after the harvest

Öko Caribe buys the cacao fresh, the beans still wrapped in their pulp. Within six hours of the harvest, they reach the processing centre. There the team ferments them for five to six days in wooden boxes set out in tiers, then dries them for about ten days under tunnels, on raised beds. It is a fermented cacao, the kind known as “Hispaniola” in the Dominican Republic.

Wooden fermentation boxes set out in tiers alongside a staircase, under a metal roof — The fermentation boxes, in tiers · Öko Caribe · Crafting Markets

Beans drying on two long raised beds, under a translucent plastic tunnel — About ten days of drying, under a tunnel · Öko Caribe · Crafting Markets

The sacks

Sorted by hand, then sacked

After drying, the beans are sorted by hand.

They are then packed in seventy-kilo sacks.

The harvest runs from March to August.

What we know about Öko Caribe comes from Crafting Markets, who connect us with them: an origin report, and these photographs.

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