Field Notes

Reports from the path.

Writing from the territories — community visits, harvest seasons, ceremony, lessons in the cacao process, questions worth holding. Our slowly-built archive.

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VRAEM

What Qori Inti taught us about clone selection.

A short field note on why the Asháninka communities have moved toward selecting Qori Inti alongside ancient Chuncho — and what that means for the agroforestry.

Sacred Valley

Ñawi: the eye in the cloth.

Why the Quechua weavers we work with place the eye motif at the centre, not the edges. A short essay on what protection actually means inside an Andean textile.

Ceremony

Why your cacao ceremony needs less ritual, not more.

Notes from a season of watching how the communities themselves drink cacao — and what gets lost when we import ceremony from elsewhere.

Buffer zone

What "buffer zone" actually means.

A plain-language explainer on how cacao agroforestry holds the line between pristine forest and degraded land — with photos from the most recent visit.

Elders

Why our courses begin in silence.

A reflection on what the first hour of every cohort is for, and why the elders insisted on it long before we did.

Mamitas

The Mamitas circle — first six months.

How the community-giving programme actually works once it lands. What's been built, what's underway, and what the mamitas themselves have asked for next.

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