Phillip Kauffman comes from a long and lauded line of conservationists. So when he left his job at the UN to launch a chocolate company, some might have wondered. But since it’s founding in 2008, Original Beans has planted more than one million trees in some of the world’s most endangered cacao-producing rainforests, like war-torn Congo and the remote Amazon basin. Along the way, it has also impacted more than twenty thousand cacao-growing families, protected mountain gorillas and helped preserve rare cacao strains. Not bad for chocolate.
The sale of each Original Beans bar ensures a rainforest tree is planted. Use the tree-tracker code on the back to follow their conservation efforts in the specific rainforest where that bar’s cacao was grown.
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Organic hand-picked wild cacao grown in the Bolivian Amazon. Notes of honey, jasmine and apricot. Ingredients:...
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Crafted from cacao grown in the buffer zone surrounding Congo's Virunga National Park, home to...
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Beans are sourced from Africa's oldest National Park to make this dark milk chocolate. Proceeds...
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Crafted from the super-rare "albino" cacao found in the Piura River Valley at the base...