Toxic-free tip: Choose Organic and Fair-Trade Chocolate This Mother’s Day

With Mother’s Day just around the corner  (three days and counting…), hopefully you already have a plan for the special moms in your life. If chocolate is high on your list, as it is on mine, there are lots of reasons to choose organic and fair trade chocolates.

To make finding the perfect morsel for your mom a breeze, check out these two great companies located in the Pacific Northwest. They both offer delicious, fair trade, organic chocolate available in stores around the country and online.

Theo Chocolate is located in Seattle, Washington and has bragging rights as America’s first fair-trade and only “beans to bar” organic chocolate factory. I can personally attest to their delicious selection of specialty chocolates with single-origin bars and surprisingly tasty concoctions like coconut curry milk chocolate or fig, fennel and almond dark chocolate.

Dagoba Organic Chocolate’s Oregon factory runs on wind power, and sells a yummy assortment including a lavender blueberry chocolate bar and, my personal favorite, drinking chocolate.

Organic chocolate is a healthy choice because it is grown without the use of harmful pesticides. Many pesticides are known or likely to cause cancer, are highly toxic to birds, bees, and fish and can harm children’s brain development. Yuk!  Buying organic and fair trade also protects our chocolate growers and their families.

Now that I have shared mine, what are your favorite toxic-free Mother’s Day gift ideas?