Visit Kauai to Tour, Taste Through One of America’s Only Working Chocolate Farms

Visit Kauai to Tour, Taste Through One of America’s Only Working Chocolate Farms
Harvest at Lydgate Farms brings volunteer helping hands from across Kauai to pull cacao from the 3,000 trees planted in the orchard. Courtesy of Lydgate Farms/TNS
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By Jessica Yadegaran From The Mercury News

KAPA'A, Hawaii—In a quiet clearing on the lush, tropical fruit and chocolate plantation of Lydgate Farms, we take our first bite of tangy, mucilaginous cacao fruit. The creamy white pulp could have become an epic sour candy flavor had it not been overshadowed two millennia ago by its seed: the source of rich, decadent chocolate.