Imagine you are working full-time in a physically demanding job, but only earn one-third of the minimum living wage! You need to feed four children and take them to school every day. School is an hour away and there is no public transport. You cannot afford a car or a motorbike. There is no gas,…
Cocooned by the pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, the Arhuaco tribe is hard to get to. It takes a rough 8 hours on motorcycle on winding dirt roads – down muddy paths, crossing rivers on corroded wooden rafts – to get to the heart of their land and…
For those of us whose lives are plugged in from the moment the alarm on our phone wakes us up to the minute our electric toothbrush cleans our teeth before bed, it is difficult to get a sense of daily life in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). To label the region poor or…
We were founded on the desire to make the world better with better chocolate and thanks to our community of food lovers and responsible consumers, we have made a significant impact in this area. But in these uncertain, tumultuous times, it is time to take control and make the kind of world we want by…
When we talk about our Esmeraldas Milk chocolate, we always note that the rare heirloom cacao beans from which it’s made are grown in the last pacific cloud forest in the world. Sounds beautiful and romantic, right, but what actually is a cloud forest? Located in the northwest section of Ecuador in the Esmeraldas…
At Original Beans, we reflect a lot (A LOT) about how to best talk about our chocolate AND our conservation efforts. As in love and marriage, for us, you can’t have one without the other. Historically, chocolate has been a vicious industry, so we started the company to make better chocolate in a way that…
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