Get to know your chocolate maker, learn how Firefly got started, read a love letter to cacao, and sit back to watch an interview with Jonas and see footage from the chocolate studio!

Meet Jonas: Your Chocolate Maker

The Engineer:

Jonas’s engineering know how keeps all the tools running at Firefly. He actually built or hacked most of them with his combined mechanical, electrical, and software background. Previously, in his roles as Imagineer at Greenlight Planet and engineering lead at Fenix International , he worked on providing affordable solar energy to disadvantaged rural communities, mostly in India and East Africa. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Stanford University, where his favorite classes were in the machine shop, and where he studied energy efficient buildings with professor Gil Masters. As a first generation American originally from Germany he received the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for his graduate studies.

The Nature Lover:

Jonas studied permaculture and nature awareness at the Regenerative Design Institute, and has lived in eco-villages and cooperative houses for the majority of the last ten years. He loves cycling and backpacking, and has cycled the Alps and across the San Juan Islands, thru hiked the John Muir Trail, and summited Mt. Shasta and Mt. Ritter. He spends many months each year sleeping outside directly on the earth and he loves harvesting his own spring water and traveling to soak in hot springs. He currently lives in Sebastopol in a dome on ten acres.

He hopes to meet you one day and share in the awe and wonder of being alive while sharing gratitude and intention over a frothy morning cacao drink!

It All Began with a Trip to Oaxaca Mexico