OBSIDIANA Order by text

Coffee · Cacao · Honduras

Relationships
are the product.

Everything else is the result.

Explore the coffeeRead our story
Mountain landscape in Central America at dusk
Comayagua, Honduras
01 / Our philosophy

Before the Americas, vast networks of exchange connected Mesoamerica and South America. Trade was not only about goods—it was about relationships built on trust, reciprocity, and time.

Obsidian moved through these networks as both tool and symbol: shaped by fire, carried by people, and valued across distance. Obsidiana takes inspiration from that history.

We choose something slower and more durable: connection over extraction, relationship over output. Quality is not manufactured; it emerges from continuity and care.

Two Obsidiana coffee partners together in Honduras
Since
2007

Honduras · Our network

We don’t work at origin.
We work with origin.

I met Elmer Cortes in 2007 on my first trip to Honduras. He was the coffee farm manager teaching me picking and processing. Despite neither of us speaking the other’s language, we both learned a lot.

Today, Elmer is the hub of our network. His deep relationships with producers and communities span Honduras. He sources, produces, roasts, and packages all of our coffees there.

“Elmer taught me the name of the bird that sounds like a drip: Oropendola.”
02 / What the network produces

Coffee with a
known history.

Bag of Obsidiana coffee from HondurasAvailable now

Roasted & packed in Honduras

Obsidiana Coffee

A relationship-led coffee sourced, roasted, and packaged through Elmer’s network in Honduras. Ask about the current lot and roast.

$28 / pound
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Cacao · Coming soon

Crafted in small batches.
Connected through lasting relationships.

Obsidiana works with Jaime Canales and Olga Mencia at Finca Tres Toucanes, and with Francisca “Franky” Dominguez at Varsovia.

Fresh cacao pods held by Obsidiana partners
Finca Tres Toucanes

Including “For the Birds,” a bird-fermented micro-lot supporting biodiversity and farm-level sustainability.

Cacao producers working with a small-batch fermentation box
Varsovia

Franky sources, produces, processes, ferments, and dries every lot—while growing a family pig-farming business.

03 / The real product

A network made
person to person.

Producers. Makers. Families. Friends. The goods are simply tangible expressions of the connections between them.

Friends and partners gathered in Honduras
Cacao producers and families in the field
Coffee producers together in the Honduran mountains
Fresh cacao pods held at origin
Producer partners and family in Honduras
Friends gathered around a table
A memorable encounter during the Obsidiana journey
Long-term partners meeting face to face
The wider Obsidiana network
Friendship across seasons and distance
A relationship built one visit at a time
Obsidiana's growing network of friends

Integrity scales.
Trust compounds.

— Chad Morton, Founder

While traveling in Guatemala in 2006, I observed a way of economics that felt both ancient and deeply human. Trade was not merely the exchange of goods; it was the exchange of trust and respect. Relationships came first. Business followed.

That realization is the foundation for Obsidiana: building lasting connections from producers and makers through to the people who enjoy what they create.

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Let’s talk coffee,
cacao, or what’s next.

Text Chad +1 616 437 2296Email chadmorton4@gmail.com

Text preferred · Based in West Michigan · Connected to Honduras