Ingredient Sources
Pure, flavorful ingredients, respectfully farmed, foraged and prepared, make the recipe. We’re lucky to live in a fertile river valley in Southern Vermont, a place where organic farmers and artisanal food producers abound, acres of forests and fields yield delicious wild edibles, and where people approach good, wholesome food as both an art and a necessity. It’s only natural that we use the most delicious and nutritious organic, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, and make it a priority to support our local food systems by purchasing from area farmers, foragers and producers. We continue our explorations in the kitchen by using globally sourced ingredients discovered in our travels, U.S.-sourced nuts and fruits, and locally sourced foods in exciting new combinations, all inspired by the particular flavor profile of each chocolate, carefully chosen for each recipe.
It’s important to us that our central ingredient, chocolate, not only tastes good, but does good, too. We use direct trade, single origin origin-made couverture we purchase directly from Latin American producer Republica del Cacao, based in Ecuador. Like fine wines and coffee, the people behind our couverture strive to innovate farming and processing methods to create the most delicious chocolate available.
Our bonbon recipes follow the seasons, and we formulate new flavor combinations year round as ingredients inspire us.
Some of our regional partners:
Our own herb & edible flower garden
Animal Farm Creamery
Brattleboro Farmers Market vendors
Blue Ledge Farm Creamery
The Bunker Farm
Butterworks Farm
Chai Wallah
Circle Mountain Farm
Coombs Family Farms
Deep Meadow Farm
Deer Ridge Farm
Dutton Berry Farm
Dwight Miller Orchards
Full Plate Farm
Grafton Village Cheese
Green Mountain Orchards
Halifax Hollow Micro-Farm
High Goose Farm
High Meadows Farm
Jasper Hill Cellars
King Arthur Flour
Linda Akaogi Smith
Milkweed Farm
Miller Farm
Old Athens Farm
Organic Valley
Parish Hill Creamery
Putney Mountain Winery
Runamok Maple
Saltery
Saxtons River Distillery
Scott Farm Orchards
Silo Distillery
Singing Cedars Apiaries
Slipstream Farm
Spoonwood Cabin Creamery
Strafford Organic Creamery
Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind Smoked Maple Syrup
Vermont Creamery
Walker Farm
Whetstone Ledges Farm
Wild Shepherd Farm
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Learn more about our chocolate sourcing here and here