Cocoa Farm Trip

The trip to Tettah Quasha Cocoa Farm was very exciting. Here our guide showed us around the first cocoa farm in all of Ghana. Ghana is responsible for producing the second most cocoa in the world. The country that gives the most is Cote D’Ivoire next door.


Below we have a picture of our guide showing us a cocoa pod opened up. It was interesting to see how slimmy it is inside. We also got the chance to taste the outside of a cocoa bean before it is dried. The "slimmy" placenta was sweet, but Betsy face doesn't tell you that.

After they take the beans out of the cocoa pod they place them on leaves of surrounding trees (plantain trees) and cover them to ferment. The come back from time to time to stir them and them leave them covered by these leaves until it is time to dry them.
Here is how the dry the beans. It was interesting to learn the process and I know that I am not doing it justice in this journal entry. The guide gave much more info. When I get more time on the Internet perhaps I will add on a few more things.