Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...

Cacao has a deep cultural significance in Black communities, where there is ancestral wisdom in its history. The journey of cacao began with Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. It is a sacred plant and ...

Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and with room for a small tree where it can have a shady overstory, it’s worth ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations ...

You may think you know all there is about chocolate, but cacao beans are only part of the story. With a rich history, cacao ...

The small group of student interns filed into the potting room, a cool space on a warm Lyman Conservatory day, and arranged themselves around a white platter. A large slab of chocolate was waiting on ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...