May 25, 2012

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Carribean is quietly developing a reputation for high quality, single estate chocolate, sold in connoisseur outlets worldwide.

May 25, 2012 in Fair Transport, Grococo by Tom | Comments closed

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While the bulk of the region’s bean harvest is exported to Europe and the USA for processing into chocolate products, confectionery and cosmetics, a few islands have been quietly developing a reputation for high quality, single estate chocolate that is now sold both locally and in connoisseur outlets as far afield as New York, London, Paris and Stockholm. Grenada has led the way through the Grenada Chocolate Company, which was founded in 1999 by Mott Green as a small-scale co-operative devoted to producing a home-grown, home-made dark organic chocolate. The company now has over 150 acres of cacao farms plus a new factory outlet making bonbons filled with local nuts, fruits and spices. Last year its strong, dry 82% chocolate bar won a Silver Medal at the 2011 Academy of Chocolate Awards in London.

via Caribbean Chocolate | Academy of Chocolate Awards | Grenada Chocolate Company |.


Grenada Chocolate Company has won acclaim for delicious, eco-friendly, passionate & honest chocolate

May 25, 2012 in Fair Trade, Grococo by Tom | Comments closed

wrapping grococo bars

It’s no wonder that the Grenada Chocolate Company has won international acclaim — it’s delicious, fair, eco-friendly and passionate — an honest product amidst a market of refined Mars and Hershey bars.

Today, the partners own 150 acres of organic cocoa farms, a cocoa fermentry located one mile from their little factory, and an army of solar-electrically powered antique machines. (In the early 1900′s, quality had precedence over quantity in chocolate-making.) The company is a rarity among a monopolized world of mega “sweets” conglomerates, producing small batches of dark chocolate infused with raw organic sugar and whole organic vanilla beans grown biodynamically in Costa Rica.

“The original impetus and principle of our cooperative company is to revolutionize the cocoa-chocolate system that typically keeps cocoa production separate from chocolate-making and therefore takes advantage of cocoa farmers. We believe that the cocoa farmers should benefit as much as the chocolate-makers” — Grenada Chocolate Company.

via The Grenada Chocolate Company: Local, Sustainable &… – Culture-ist.


Grenada Chocolate uses small batches, solar energy, chemical-free cacao and now green shipment

May 25, 2012 in Fair Trade, Fair Transport, Grococo by Tom | Comments closed

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Transportation accounts for approximately 25% of world energy demand and for more than 62% of all the oil used each year.

So when we study renewable energy options we soon become very aware of the fact that it’s usually in the transport issues that we end up ignoring, as we are so used to a highly transportable concentrated energy source like petrol to get around.

The Chocolate Company, specialized in making pure organic chocolate, shipped five tons of organic chocolate from Grenada to New York City (, England, Portsmouth, and of course Amsterdam.) The first batch of chocolate and the company’s founder Matt Green, were picked up in March. Even though the exact date of arrival was depending on the trade winds, the delivery took place in early April.

Using small batches, solar energy, chemical-free cacao and in addition the green shipment, it is a company that truly cares for the environment. So it may take a while, but at the end you will have a real piece of organic delicacy, shipped by a CO2 free sailboat.

via Transport – PermaCultureScience.org.