Ethical Chocolate Workshop

Published on 07 March 2025

This Easter, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery is working with Anne Moorhead and Richard Markham, founders of KokoMana, an ethical cocoa and chocolate making company in Fiji, on hosting ethical chocolate making workshops. Participants will learn about tempering chocolate using the tabling method on a marble slab and will have a choice of moulds to make chocolate leaves, shells, banksia cones, and other edible pieces moulded from nature. While the chocolate sets, Workshop hosts will explain small-scale, ethical chocolate production, and provide a tasting of the difference between fine-flavour, single-origin chocolate and mass-produced commercial chocolate.

Anne Moorhead and Richard Markham established KokoMana, a small social enterprise near the seaside town of Savusavu in Fiji, in 2018. Richard manages the cocoa farm, an environmentally friendly agroforestry plantation set in the tropical rainforest, while Anne oversees chocolate production in the small on-site chocolate factory. Anne has also been exploring chocolate as a creative material for several years, inspired by the beauty of Fiji's rainforest, and more recently by the very different but equally spectacular Shoalhaven environment, where Anne and Richard also have a home.

Each workshop participant will get one kilo of chocolate to create their own chocolate artworks just in time for Easter.

To book your place on the events pages:

https://www.shoalhavenregionalgallery.com.au/Whats-on/Events-and-programs