About our Chocolate

The chocolate we use in our Chocolate Herbals is a dark and richly flavored Dutched cocoa powder that comes from cooperatives whose products are Fair Trade and organically certified. Fair Trade certification is a guarantee to processors, handlers, retailers and consumers, that the cocoa beans used in this chocolate were produced in a way that does no social harm. Consuming chocolate made from organically grown cocoa is one giant step toward reducing our dependence on petroleum-based agricultural inputs while supporting small growers who intercrop growing as many 6 crops on one small plot. Fair Trade-certified cocoa only comes from certified farmers' cooperatives, organized to strengthen their farmer-members economically so they can provide for their families and educate their children.

Like the Hippocratic oath, First, do no harm. You can feel secure that eating our Fair-Trade-certified chocolate does no harm, either to the earth or the people who depend on it.

Currently, our beans come from either the Dominican Republic, Peru or Costa Rica, the only countries in the world where there are farmers' cooperatives that are certified organic and Fair Trade.

A portion of the profits from our chocolate supplier goes to support West African cooperatives in their efforts to become organic.
Organic and Fair Trade are like two soybeans in the pod of sustainability. Organic supports the soil and human health, protecting us from chemical pollutants. Fair Trade promotes community health by paying the farmer a higher price.
 

We would like to invite you to help support Project Hope and Fairness, a 501(3c) charitable organization.  Its main goal is to help the cocoa farmer.  Right now, they are focusing efforts in Ivory Coast, the source of 75% of America's chocolate.  There are over 600,000 cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, most of them dirt-poor.  Their goal is to redress the negative effects of large chocolate corporations, which have done little to improve the lives of the farmers whose products we enjoy.  Visit http://www.projecthopeandfairness.org to find out more!

Chocolate Herbal Formulations

You will be looking forward to taking your herbal remedies with our tasty chocolaty herbal formulations.  

Our Chocolate is Organic and Fair Trade Certified.