Our Story
Morta — "Our Own"
In the Kono dialect of Sierra Leone, "Morta" means "our own." Our land. Our harvest. Our responsibility.
Deep in Sierra Leone's Eastern Province lies Kono District — a region the world knows for diamonds, but whose real treasure grows quietly under the tropical canopy. Here, on the same red earth our family has farmed for generations, some of West Africa's finest cacao trees bear fruit year after year.
Morta Cacao grew from these roots. A family-run agricultural business built on a simple belief: that the people who grow the bean should benefit most from its value. We started small — one family, a handful of farms, and a determination to do things differently. Today, we supply premium single origin cacao to buyers across the globe, and every kilogram still passes through the hands of the families who grew it.
Our methods are unhurried and intentional. We grow under natural shade, without synthetic chemicals or pesticides. Every pod is hand-harvested at peak ripeness, split open the same day, and fermented naturally over five to seven days in covered wooden boxes. The beans are then sun dried on raised beds and turned by hand — a patient process that cannot be rushed if you want a clean, complex flavour profile. This is how our grandparents did it. It is still the best way.
We operate across two countries to bring this quality directly to you. Our family manages every stage of production in Sierra Leone — from planting and harvesting to fermentation, drying, and sorting. Our UK entity, Morta Cacao Ltd, handles international trade, export documentation, and buyer relationships. There are no agents, no brokers, no unnecessary middlemen. When you deal with Morta, you deal with the source.
And the impact is tangible. Our harvests fund a primary school we built in our village. They support clean water infrastructure for families who had none. They create steady employment — from farmworkers and fermentation teams to transport and logistics. This is not a CSR line on a brochure. This is what happens when trade is done fairly, and value stays where it is created.
From Our Land to Yours.
