Tag: Chocolate

By Ernest Heatley The first thing you notice at KokoMana isn’t the chocolate. It’s the sound of nature, rustling trees, birdsong, the morning hum of this beautiful part of Savusavu. Somewhere between the whisper of cocoa leaves and the soft chatter of visitors, you feel the gentle energy of a place very much alive. A […]

By Samisoni Pareti and Samantha Magick Kokomana is a small artisan ‘tree-to-bar’ chocolate maker and social enterprise run by Richard and Anne Markham in Savusavu, northern Fiji. The operation produces about 100 bars of high-quality chocolate bars—almost entirely by hand—each week, using cocoa beans from communities, particularly around Natewa Bay (including from Ana and Manoa […]