Ethical Sourcing
Here at Dandelion, we not only want to work with partners who produce good beans, but also with those who share similar values around transparency, and who seek to maintain long-term partnerships. We do our best to live up to the trust producers put in us to represent them well — not only via the chocolate we make from their beans, but also by ensuring that people who enjoy our chocolate understand the hard work that our farmer and producer partners do to make amazing cocoa. (We aim to work with people who care as much about producing great beans as we care about making great chocolate.)
We visit our producers as often as possible to maintain our relationships, and to stay up to date on operations at origin. Our purchase prices are not determined based on the commodity market, but upon prices that producers with whom we work believe are appropriate. Often our prices end up being several times the market price.