Our Story

Ma Cacao is a small, family run, mom & pop company. We’ve been handcrafting chocolate for over a decade. It’s our passion and our love, and we couldn’t be more proud and humbled to have this as our offering to the earth and our community. Cacao has always been an incredible connector, and we’ve watched this unfold in our community in so many beautiful ways over the years. Cacao brings people together, in joy, in reverence, in health, and in love.

We started our business in 2010 with a desire to merge healthy, whole food, with high quality crafting and taste. There was a big divide between taste and health, and we were determined to bridge the gap. We started in our tiny apartment, with a big dream and nothing else. We had no money between the two of us, and hustled like crazy for years to get the business off the ground. We worked side jobs, odd jobs, and full time jobs, and made chocolate in all of our spare time. It has been a labor of love to say the least. Starting a business on our own, from the ground up, was a huge undertaking, and it wasn’t easy. We worked until sunrise on so many nights it's hard to count. We still do sometimes.

Ma was born from love. From loving someone and something so much you want to spend every moment together, building and creating and crafting. But Ma grew to what it is today from hard work, long hours, grit, tears, and endless mistakes. And yet all along there has been a golden thread through the heartbeat of this company that kept us persevering. A thread we follow when things get tough, that shows us which direction to go. A thread that keeps her going, pulsing, and thriving. We like to think it’s love.

Ma grows and changes all the time; she’s an ever-evolving being of her own, with her own desires of what she wants to become in this world. We do our best to listen to what this company wants to be, and to what our customers and community want and need.

We hope to never stop dreaming, never stop growing, and never stop listening. Ma is here to help you feel connected to earth, heart, and spirit, and to honor the sacred plant wisdom of cacao. In our efforts, we hope to offer a mindful relationship between the earth, the plants, and humanity, and to follow that golden thread of love with as much grace and humility as possible.