Friday the 13th seems like a very unlucky day. During the night, a huge fell on top of our house and factory. The tree crushed our chocolate factory but spared our house. The event, now called Tree-Rex, occurred during the night while it stormed. Timing is everything! Everyone survived. Even the iguanas!
We love trees and this tree is my personal favorite. For this reason, the loss of such beautiful tree saddens us. Never-the-less, this tree finished its life naturally right on top of our house and factory.
Since no one perished and our house survived with minor damages, we consider Friday the 13th the luckiest day yet! Factories are rebuilt and dreams re-sparked!
We will keep our staff fully paid and continue our place as one of the best chocolates produced in Costa Rica. We stopped production for now, as the roaster is damaged. Parts and technicians arrive this week to revive our roaster. This good news means that, once we get Frank the roster running we will start production in the rest of the factory! The financial challenges we face are why we started a Go Fund Me Campaign .
Any small donation helps!
Another way you can help? Order chocolate online! We ship anywhere in the world!
Traveling to Costa Rica? Join our Chocolate Factory Tour! Get the Tree-Rex discount of $22 instead of $28 per person while we rebuild.
Greetings,
Your cousin Marcia Brown shared your story with me. I may be able to help a bit. I own a small boutique hotel on the pacific coast, in Nosara. Our property is called Tierra Magnifica. If you are interested in collaborating with us we would be interested in buying your chocolate for sale to our guests on site and also shipped direct. We would want our logo on the front but on the back of the label we can say produced and packaged by …… you company name.
If this sound agreeable to you we can place an order and pay in advance, in full to help you rebuild. We won’t need the product at our property until November but we can start selling on line as soon as you’re back up and running. I’d like to sample your product before though. Perhaps you can send samples to our house in San Jose.
If you are interested in this idea and would like to discuss please contact me through email at steve@tierramagnifica.com I wish you great speed and success in rebuilding.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobus
Just seeing this now! Thanks for your comment and offer to help. Jeanne will email you soon. We can definitely send some samples.