BLACK WHY DAY? Why some businesses do, why we do not.   Dear Somastars,   Alistair’s second job out of high school was at a sales company selling credit cards. On his first day, his...

Dear Somastars,   The days are getting warmer, and life is hotting up at Soma. All five of our cacao origins are fully stocked - it feels like having all our children home for Christmas....

Dear Somaliers,   Last week we saw a report called The Great British Honey Scandal, in which England’s leading honey sommelier talked about honey fraud, saying that most honey in British supermarkets is “honey-flavoured syrup,”...

  Dear Somaslurpers, Firstly, thank you to everyone who checked in on our mental health following our last email.   We were a little delirious when we wrote it - delirious with joy at securing...

  Fantastic news, Somacrew! After a year of searching, scouring high and low across the globe, we have finally landed our next cacao source! It's been a long and awful process, that started with us...

 Dear Somasippers/slurpers/suckers,   We’ll start with our sad news - circumstances have compelled us to bring forward next year’s price adjustment for our Daintree cacao.   Our policy is to never increase prices by more than the...

We’ve partnered with Australian wellness brand ETTO for a very special online giveaway. Most balms, ointments and skin washes available in supermarkets contain all sorts of nasties, like petroleum gel, turpentine, parabens, sulfates, cocamidopropyl betaine, methylisothiazolinone,...

Humans started consuming and cultivating cacao 5300 years ago. Migration and commerce spread cacao through Central and Tropical South America, and into the Caribbean. From 1500, European influence carried cacao to tropical areas around the...

Every year in North Queensland there’s a week around the start of August when winter seems to end. The mornings are hot and still, the sun has bite again, the nights are balmy, the winter...