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A Cocoa Farm

By Julia Lindsey
Illustrated by Meghan Shea
Chocolate is a great treat. Do Do you like chocolate? You can
you like chocolate? get it at a shop. When you eat it,
You can get chocolate at a think about the chocolate farmers
shop, but where does chocolate far, far away who make this great
come from? treat!

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When the pods are ripe, farmers Chocolate starts as a cocoa
cut them off the tree.They mash bean on a farm, far away from most
the beans and turn them into liquid. shops. Most cocoa bean farms are
When the liquid turns hard, it turns small farms in hot parts of earth.
into chocolate, like the chocolate
bars at the shops!

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Cocoa beans grow in pods on trees. It is not easy to grow cocoa. It
On the farm, each person helps the needs to be hot. It needs to get lots
trees—moms, dads, and also kids. of rain. It needs to stay away from
the wind and from pests. Pests could
eat the cocoa pods!

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