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Aaron Koch

Aaron Koch is the founder of Treehouse Chocolate, a sustainably sourced drinking chocolate company based in Portland. Aaron has lived in Singapore, Oregon, Hawaii and Indonesia, working every odd job imaginable, from a sailboat deliverer, dive tour operator and high-rise window washer to an organic farmer. After living in a treehouse on a cacao farm in Hawaii, Aaron moved to Portland to build Treehouse Chocolate, which buys organic cacao direct from farmer-owned cooperatives and produces single-serving drinking chocolate.

A Sidecar Full of Chocolate

September 6, 2016
We took Interstate 84 East out of Portland, skirting the beautiful Columbia River. The drive must have been distracting because somewhere outside of Pendleton we began running out of gas — and daylight. Scrambling to find a cool place to stay the night, we found "The Haunted Hotel" outside of La Grande. Technically it's called the Hot Lake Springs Bed & Breakfast, but as a former 1920's hot springs resort and mental hospital, rumors of ghost sightings persist. More
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