Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los ...

Twenty-Four Blackbirds founder Michael Orlando is successfully growing cacao, but looking for help to ramp up the project; ...

Growing cacao at home can be a rewarding experience, especially if you are a fan of chocolate. Although cacao trees are ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are working with California Cultured, a Sacramento based food-tech ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways ...

Who would ever decide to keep highly temperamental trees comfortable at a specific temperature and humidity for multiple years, pollinate thousands of small flowers by hand, ferment, roast, winnow and ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -While cacao is traditionally grown in tropical regions near the equator, one Santa Barbara chocolatier ...

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 ...

There are technological and biological wonders inside the sleek San Gabriel offices of Seamus Blackley, which are evasively named — intentionally so — Pacific Light & Hologram. Best known as the ...