California
Alter Eco Chocolate
2325 Third Street, Suite 324
San Francisco
415.701.1212
Organically grown and fairly traded dark chocolate including Twist (Dark organic chocolate with crystallized orange peel, vibrant and tangy) and Quinoa (Dark organic chocolate, with nutty toasted quinoa, light crispy crunch. Works “directly with small-scale farmers who grow our quinoa, rice, sugar and chocolate helping them institute fair trade and organic practices.”
https://www.alterecofoods.com/
Dandelion Chocolate
740 Valencia Street (Mission District)
San Francisco
415.349.0942
Bean-to-bar chocolate factory using single source beans, crafting chocolate bars made with cocoa from a female-run co-op in Mantuano, Venezuela, small farmers in southern Belize and the Akesson farm in Madagascar. Small chocolate cafe in the front of factory with hot chocolates, mochas, and other chocolate treats (Mon-Thurs & Sun 10:00AM-9:00PM, Fri-Sat 10:00AM-10:00PM).
www.dandelionchocolate.com
Dr. Bronner’s Magic All-One Chocolate
1335 Park Center Drive
Vista (San Diego County)
Pairing world-class Swiss chocolatiers with fairly-treated cocoa farmers practicing regenerative organic agriculture, Dr. Bronner’s organic and fair trade Magic All-one Chocolate is all vegan, 70% cocoa, and sweetened with coconut sugar; 3 ounce bars include salted dark chocolate, salted whole almonds, salted almond butter, crunchy hazelnut butter, roasted whole hazelnuts, cool peppermint cream and smooth coconut praline
https://www.drbronner.com/pages/magic-all-one-chocolate
TCHO Chocolate
3100 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley
844.877.8246
Delicious chocolate, sourced responsibly and fair-traded, including dark chocolate bars, Mint Chip Gelato & Triple Berry, and milk chocolate bars, Toffee and Sea Salt & Hazelnut Chunk
https://tcho.com/
Canada
Soma Chocolate
Toronto (Ontario)
416.599.7662
Directly sources chocolate from Latin America, Madagascar & Papua New Guinea, with 20+ micro batch chocolates, truffles, cookies, drinking chocolate (click on link for more info)
Soma Chocolate’s two shops in Toronto: 443 King Street W (shop hours: Mon-Thur 9:00AM-8:00PM, Fri 9:00AM-9:00PM, Sat 12:00PM-9:00PM, Sun 12:00PM-6:00PM) and 332 Tank House Lane (shop hours: Mon-Sat 10:00AM-8:00PM, Sun 12:00PM-6:00PM)
(click on link to confirm operating hours of shops)
www.somachocolate.com
District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
Divine Chocolate
425 8th Street, SE
202.332.8913
Fair trade chocolate from Ghana produced by a farmers’ co-operative called Kuapa Kokoo consisting of small family farmers who own 45% of this chocolate company. Ghanaian cocoa has developed a global reputation for its quality and taste. One of the country’s main exports, Ghanaian cocoa is mostly grown on small family owned farms, rather than on large plantations, and prospers in the humid, shady conditions provided by the Ghanaian rain forest canopy. Divine offers dark, milk or white chocolate and gives farmers “a fairer deal and a brighter future.”
https://www.divinechocolate.com/us/
Harper Macaw
3160 Bladensburg Road NE
With its mission “to turn chocolate into a force for tropical reforestation,” directly sources cacao beans from Brazil’s Atlantic and Amazon rain forests. Its Brazilian cacao farms, Cooperative Agricola Mixta de Tomé Açu (CAMTA), Pará and Fazendas Reunidas Vale do Juliana, Bahia, are “pioneers in sustainable agroforestry.”
Factory hours: Saturdays 12:00PM-6:00PM, with tours ($10.00 per person) on the hour starting at 1:00PM (last about one hour and include a chocolate tasting).
https://harpermacaw.com
Grenada (The Caribbean)
The Grenada Chocolate Company
Hermitage, St. Patrick
473.442.0050
A cocoa-growing and chocolate-making cooperative, producing single-origin chocolate from tree to bar by a small batch process. Its organic cocoa farms on Grenada produce Trinitario cocoa beans, famous for rich complex flavor. Sprinkled with nibs, pieces of the cocoa bean, the bar has a crispy texture and extra rich flavor. Solar energy powers its factory, and wrappers are printed on 50% recycled/25% post consumer waste stock with vegetable based inks. Founder Mott Green profiled in movie Nothing Like Chocolate.
www.grenadachocolate.com
Hawaii
Madre Chocolate
Honolulu
808.377.6440
Locations of Madre Chocolate’s two shops
1150 Nuuanu Avenue (Chinatown neighborhood) & 20A Kaneohe Street
Shop hours: Mon-Sat 11:00AM-6:00PM (confirm operating hours by clicking on link below)
Working directly with cacao famers in Hawaii, Latin America & the Pacific (Vanuatu & Solomon Islands), organic & fair trade chocolate bars include Hawaii’i Origin Bars like Liliko’i Passionfruit, Kona 70%, coconut milk & caramel, Locavore Hawaiian Earl Grey Tea dark chocolate
https://www.madrechocolate.com/
Indiana
Endangered Species Chocolate
5846 W. 73rd Street
Indianapolis
317.387.4372
Ethically traded chocolate including the newest addition to its “conscious confections line”: crunchy caramel pecan dark chocolate patties. Ensuring ethical wages and working conditions for cacao farmers in Ecuador. Donates 10% of net profits to charitable organizations that support species and habitat conservation efforts in harmony with humanity. Its employees encouraged to commit portion of their paid time to volunteerism.
www.chocolatebar.com
Maine
Bixby & Co.
One Sea Street Place
Rockland (Knox County)
207.691.2634
Factory hours: Mon-Sat 10:00AM-5:30PM, Sun 12:00PM-5:30PM
Commitment to fairness, sustainability, minimal environmental impact and community enhancement. As the first bean to bar maker in Maine, produces clean, real and sustainable confectionery products including Bixby Bars: Nutty For You, Nutty For Me, Whippersnapper, Heart’s Delight, Birdie, KnockOut, Mulligan, To the Nines and Gingered Up; Drinking Chocolate; Bixby Bites; Bean to Bar Single Origin Craft Chocolate.
https://bixbyco.com/
Massachusetts
Equal Exchange
50 United Drive
West Bridgewater (Plymouth County)
774.776.7400
Rich chocolate bars crafted using the best quality organic cocoa from the Dominican Republic and Peru. Works with small farmer cooperatives who cultivate their cocoa using environmentally sustainable methods.
www.equalexchange.coop/chocolate-bars
Goodnow Farms Chocolates
80 Goodnow Road
Sudbury (Middlesex County)
978.579.4939
Single-origin chocolate using finest cacao beans ethically sourced from small farms and producers including Asochivite (Guatemala); El Carmen (Nicaragua) & Almendra Blanca (Mexico).
https://goodnowfarms.com
Happyist Plant-Based
West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard
833.554.2779
Superfood Chocolate: Paleo – Vegan & Keto-Friendly
https://www.eathappyist.com/
Taza
561 Windsor Street
Somerville (Middlesex County)
617.623.0804
A small bean to bar chocolate maker and the only producer in the U.S. of 100% stone-ground, organic chocolate. Uses exclusively organic and sustainable cacao from a small cooperative in the Dominican Republic, with a hearty and diverse tree stock called La Red Guacanejo. Sugar sourced from the Green Cane Project in Brazil. True cinnamon and whole vanilla pods, both organic and biodynamically grown from Villa Vanilla in Costa Rica. Maintains direct relationships with growers to ensure fair wages and work practices.
www.tazachocolate.com
Missouri
Askinosie Chocolate
514 Commercial Street
417.862.9900
Springfield
Small batch, bean to bar chocolate. Sourcing 100% of beans directly from the farmers in Ecuador, Honduras, Tanzania and Phillipines. Specialty bars include (i) Dark Chocolate + Malted Milk CollaBARation Bar, (ii) Dark Chocolate + Crunchy Sugar Crystal + Vanilla Bean CollaBARation Bar, & (iii) Dark Milk Chocolate + Black Licorice CollaBARation Bar.
www.askinosie.com
New York
Madécasse
630 Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn
917.382.2020
Started by former Peace Corps volunteers, committed to making chocolate entirely in Africa by empowering Madagascar’s cocoa farmers with skills training and higher wages. Created meaningful income for over 200 people in Madagascar from chocolate making and packaging production to farming of the cocoa, spices and fruits. Current offerings include salted almond, sea salt and nibs, toasted coconut, 70% cocoa & espresso bean bar
https://madecasse.com/
Mast Brothers Chocolate
111 North 3rd Street
Brooklyn
718.388.2625
“Craft chocolate bars” made from cacao primarily sourced from La Red de Guaconejo, a small organic co-operative in the Dominican Republic.
http://mastbrothers.com/
Oliver Kita Hudson Valley Chocolates
18 W Market Street
Rhinebeck (Dutchess County)
845.876.2665
Artisan and fair trade fine chocolates, using French organic and Swiss sources complemented by traditional French methods and the finest ingredients. Heavy satin cream, award-winning sweet butter, the finest fruits, low sugar, and carefully selected and roasted nuts are all in artfully hand-crafted designs.
www.oliverkita.com
Raaka Chocolate
64 Seabring Street (Red Hook)
Brooklyn
855.255.3354
Unroasted (ergo, “virgin”), stone ground, small batch chocolate that’s certified organic, fair trade, soy free, nut free, gluten free & vegan. “Virgin Chocolate” includes maple & nibs (75% cacao); vanilla rooibos (67% cacao); lapsang chai (66% cacao); and coconut milk (60% cacao)
www.raakachocolate.com
North Carolina
Escazu Artisan Chocolates
936 N. Blount Street
Raleigh (store hours: Tues-Thurs 11:00AM-9:00PM, Fri & Sat 11:00AM-10:00PM & Sun 11:00AM-6:00PM)
919.832.3433
Fine cacao directly sourced from small farms, then roasted and grinded on antique equipment. Artisan chocolate bars include dark chocolate bars in various flavors: with sea salt, chipotle chile, pumpkin seed & Guajillo chile, cocoa nibs and an award winning (2012 Good Food Awards [San Francisco]) goats milk 60% Carenero bar.
www.escazuchocolates.com
Videri Chocolate Factory
327 West Davie Street
Raleigh
919.755.5053
Chocolates include classic dark chocolate, with fruity and nutty notes, and pink peppercorn chocolate with an effervescence similar to fresh ginger, made from fair trade and organic cacao beans.
http://viderichocolatefactory.com
Oregon
Dagoba Chocolate
1105 Benson Way
Ashland (Jackson County)
866.972.6879
“Full circle sustainability” commitment seeks “to better our business, our products and ourselves in the areas of quality, ecology, equity and community.” Maintains relationships with cacao growers in Latin America, South America and Madagascar so as to source sustainably grown cacao to benefit the land and the farmers who harvest it, including a partnership with Upala cacao cooperative in Costa Rica where it is helping reforest land for greater economic opportunities for growers and environmental restoration. “Fair Trade” designation on line of drinking chocolate, syrup and cacao powder. Conocado bar sourced from fair trade certified Conocado cooperative in the Dominican Republic.
www.dagobachocolate.com
Pennsylvania
Coddle & Cosset, a handmade truffles company
4121 Main, a concept shop has limited quantities exclusively
4121 Main Street (below Penn Avenue between Woolslayer Way & Milgate Street)
Pittsburgh
Handcrafted truffles using fair trade, organic chocolate, local dairy for local flavors
Shop Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00AM-6:00PM, Sat & Sun 9:00AM-5:00PM
www.coddleandcosset.com
John & Kira’s
163 W. Wyoming Avenue
Philadelphia
1.800.747.4808
Chocolate made from organic and fair-traded cacao nibs imported by upstate New York’s Tierra Farm and flavored with ingredients grown by family farmers and urban gardeners including Common Good City Farm in Washington, DC and Urban Nutrition Initiative school gardens. “Urban Garden Chocolate Bars” include (i) mighty mint, (ii) tangy orange & garden rosemary, and (iii) chili pepper & almond.
www.johnandkiras.com
Moka Origins
952 Bethany Turnpike
Honesdale (Wayne County)
1.570.979.1010
Factory Store & Cafe open to the public: Daily 9:00AM-4:00PM
Works to make cacao and coffee a sustainable source of income for farmers around the world by sourcing ethically to reduce unethical labor practices and help overcome poverty; invests profits into community infrastructure that brings wellbeing and sustainable income; plants one tree for every product sold to fight climate change and foster biodiversity. With 10,341 cacao farmers in its supply chain, click on the link to discover the extraordinary variety of chocolates!
https://mokaorigins.com/
Tennessee
Olive & Sinclair Chocolates
1628 Fatherland Street
Nashville
615.262.3007
Chocolate Shop Hours: Tues-Sat 10:00AM-5:00PM
Organic& fair trade cacao beans are slow roasted and stone ground in small batches; flavors include sea salt & vinegar caramel, Mexican style cinnamon chili, classic Southern flavors of Bourbon nib brittle & smoked nib brittle
www.oliveandsinclair.com
Utah
Ritual Chocolate
1105 Iron Horse Drive
Park City (Summit County)
Café hours: Mon-Sat 7:00AM-6:00PM, Sun 8:00AM-5:00PM
Small batch, bean-to-bar chocolate maker using classic European methods and premium cacao from select sources chocolate with its aim to support the people who grow our ingredients, our planet and all of us inhabitants
https://www.ritualchocolate.com/
Vermont
Big Picture Farm
1600 Peaked Mountain Road
802.221.0547
Townshend (Wyndham County)
Uses only local and/or organic ingredients to supplement the primary ingredient and principal flavoring agent: fresh, raw, crazy goat milk from own farm;
Chocolate covered goat milk caramels, vanilla pecan butter crunch, truffles
www.bigpicturefarm.com
Tavernier Chocolates
74 Cotton Mill Hill (Unit 124A)
Brattleboro (Windham County)
802.234.5667
Classic bonbons, seasonal collections, tablets and bars made with single origin chocolate from Venezuela, as well as American and French couverture sourced from South America that are produced following fair trade precepts, either as cooperatives or ethically estate-run farms
www.tavernierchocolates.com
Washington
Theo Chocolate
3400 Phinney
Seattle
206.632.5100
The first North American organic and fair trade bean-to-bar chocolate maker. Opens its factory every day to visitors to “smell and taste all of our incredible creations, watch us roast cocoa beans and hand craft our beautiful confections, and learn more about our movement to save the planet and its capacity to nurture and sustain all living things.”
www.theochocolate.com
