Company working to elevate dark chocolate tasting experience.
September 11, 2018
As part of his conservation work, co-founder Jerry Toth spent several years cultivating an organic fruit tree orchard that features cacao trees interplanted with more than 50 different species of tropical fruit trees.
When Denise Castronovo launched Castronovo Chocolate in 2013 with her husband Jim, she brought with her a PhD in ecology and a passion for rainforest conservation. So to her it was only natural that her company start in an actual forest - with the cocoa beans.
Cynthia Calvert-Copeland, the owner of aspecialtybox.com, remembers exactly when her husband, Bill, told her he wanted to switch careers and become a chocolatier.
Ritter harvested its first cocoa crop in 2017, presenting new possibilities for the company's product portfolio and pushing it closer to achieving its sustainability goals.