Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California climate. Blackley and partner Asher Sefami approach the ...

A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon “Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

Indeed, this tree doesn't naturally survive in the climate of Southern California. Blackley, however, wants dozens of them. Blackley is growing cacao trees. And he says this latest obsession ...

With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground. “Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like ...

while retail prices are up “Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with ...

Cocoa production has increased in certain African countries as growing areas expand at the expense of forests, but online ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Cocoa trees are high maintenance: Grown only near the equator, they require a precise combination of steady ...