Here's a toast to you! You are a chocolate lover, a cacao grower, a regeneration partner. You have joined our mission together to regenerate what we consume. Without you, no impact happens.
Some call what connects us a “supply chain”. But aren’t we rather a value community? Sharing equal values in a community from the cacao gardens to the food kitchens? Only together, we create the impact.
Feel part, feel proud, read on.
YOUR BEAN TEAM
No impact without you
Community
Here's a toast to you! You are a chocolate lover, a cacao grower, a regeneration partner. You have joined our mission together to regenerate what we consume. Without you, no impact happens.
Some call what connects us a “supply chain”. But aren’t we rather a value community? Sharing equal values in a community from the cacao gardens to the food kitchens? Only together, we create the impact.
Original Beans' One4One Trees programme is the world's longest-running. Since 2010, together with you, we have grown 3,5 million trees in the world’s tropical hotspot forests, some 10 thousand soccer fields of forests owned and managed by local and indigenous communities.
We never outsource this work, because we believe the most lasting impact happens when chocolate lovers and cacao growers connect in ways that are meaningful to both. If you buy Original Beans chocolate, you directly fund those who grow trees. If you grow trees, you take care of forests on behalf of us all.
Track your Impact
Travel to Your Tree
From the start, we have had a “tree tracker” online for you to view the tree nursery locations on a map. Already on our first bars ever, we printed “tree codes” which referred to the respective nursery location once you typed the code into our website. Today, we use QR codes on all products. Try it out on your product or with the test code here.
The Chocolate Foodprint
Inspiring Impact
The Chocolate Foodprint is your dashboard on the impact we make together. The data is collected in the fields and villages by our local Bean Team. They count trees grown, women at work, beans bought, prices paid, and we report them every year. If you want to know more details, click to the Foodprint, the FAQs, follow one of our online tastings, or email us.
As an Original Beans customer, you buy your chocolate directly from the growers. Why not your carbon credits? The bottom-line is similar: protect the earth’s hotspot forests; empower your local growers; and avoid the treacheries of the commodity trade whether in carbon credits or cacao beans.
If you are interested in Original Beans Climate Forests, download our brochure and get in touch with our Field Team directly.
From our community
Customer Voices
I am very proud to support Original Beans’ ethos, which respects and protects the land and the local workers.
Nelson Müller
RESTAURANT SCHOTE, ESSEN, Germany
Chocolate can be so much more than just that. It is strong, soft, intense, passionate ... almost like a soul. So we should treat it with respect. From cultivation to processing.
Rosaura Laura
Bean Team, Peru
I am deeply impressed by Original Beans. They are showing us the promise of regeneration. And with the Chocolate Foodprint, they provide hard data to back it up.
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist
Original Beans supports some of the poorest and most vulnerable people, especially women.
Justine Greening
FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, UK
Former Secretary of State, UK
A unique product and a taste that touches not only the stomach but also the conscience.
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