Through reciprocal intercultural relationships with small producers in Southern Mexico, ChocoSol obtains high quality, sustainably-grown cacao beans. Hard-working chocosolistas at the Cacao Loft on St. Joseph Street downtown Toronto turn the raw beans into wholesome chocolate foods with the help of bicycle technologies and additions of locally-grown herbs and seeds. Dignity, social consciousness, invention, and voluntary simplicity are some of the foundational principles that underlie the Chocosol work ethic.

And chocolate is just the beginning of a story still being created!

This holiday season, our chocolate hold is brimming with new creations and we are opening up the Cacao Loft to customers who are looking for meaningful gifts.

· Chia Pets

· Cacao beans, nibs, protein powder, and butter

· Vanilla pods

· Coffee

· Spices, seasonings

· Artisanal-made eating and drinking chocolate (including hemp butter cups and coconut butter cups)

· Hemp cookies, cacao cookies

· Earthenware pottery from Southern Mexico

· Molinillos

· Coconut butter

· Fresh locally-harvested hemp seeds

· Signed copies of Wayne Roberts’ No Nonsense Guide to World Food

~ Drinking chocolate

Wares may be purchased individually or as combinations.

Some suggested $30.00 gift combinations are:

a) Drinking chocolate tri-pack and hand-drawn zine, molinillo, pottery piece

b) Savoury salts from Mexico, palm hearts, hemp seeds, copy of Wayne Roberts’ No-Nonsense Guide to World Food

c) Chia Pet, chia seeds, and gourmet eating chocolate.