This year the chocolate bars of the Grenada Chocolate Company will be delivered by bike to the stores throughout The Netherlands! A caravan of bikers will bring them to several stores and their clients will be able to enjoy the first (ever!) 100% fair transport chocolate - now thát tastes good!
If you want to support this good cause and enjoy riding your bike, please contact us and you can join this special event. Most likely around June 10 or 11, the plans will be revealed on this website, or mail us at fiets@chocoladeboot.nl
Looking forward to have many bikers spread the word and the chocolate,...
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For the second trip, the Grenada Chocolate Company is taking on board 50.000 chocolate bars... The ship is leaving today from Grenada and you can follow the voyage on the ship tracker and also on Mott's blog!
Enjoy and more news coming up soon!
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More than Fair Trade! care for logo's, but don't be lead only by logo's!
Unfortunately the cocoa industry is still today an industry where exploitation and slavery and underpaid employment is wide spread. Initiatives are born to produce chocolate called 'towards slavery free chocolate' which are very good to create awareness but they admit themselves it is nowadays almost impossible to be absolutely sure to eat slavery free chocolate if you buy mass market chocolate.
The Fair Trade label is a great initiative to create awareness of consumers about the circumstances in the chocolate production...
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‘It takes a whole village to make one chocolate bar’
Deep in the tropical forest of the Caribbean Island Grenada is a perfect place to grow cocoa. When anarchist chocolate maker Mott Green arrived for the first time to Grenada, he saw both the enormous potential of cocoa and the large local unemployment (40%) and he came up with a revolutionary idea of creating a cooperative of organic cocoa farmers and to actually make chocolate in the tropics ‘the whole idea of the Grenada Chocolate company started to revolutionise the connection between cocoa farmers and making fine chocolate, to strenghten...
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The time that the Tres Hombres was in Grenada, the crew of the boat and the staff of the factory visited each other and got a grand tour on both locations. For the crew of the boat is was a nice trip inland, up to Hermitage in the North where the Grenada Chocolate factory is located, very near to Belmont Estate where the cocoa is fermented and dried - and across the road of the cocoa plantations...
After a 2 hour drive Mott showed them around - they had never seen so much cocoa beans all together - and in the factory they were all very interested in the production process - just see the look...
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Party time at the factory as the crew of the Tres Hombres/FairTransport and the people of the Grenada Chocolate Company celebrate together before the departure of the ship later that week.
After a grand tour of chocolate making in the factory and at Belmont Estate, the crew returns to the factory and the most delicious local food, is cooked on charcoal and served on banana leaves (!)
A lot of story telling, on wild sailor adventures, travels, organic cocoa farming and chocolate making. These two companies seem to have a lot in common in their way of doing business and doing good, however...
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Tonight is the night of the Milan Film Festival (MIFF) where the documentary Nothing Like Chocolate is nominated in the category of Best Documentary!
This documentary tells the message of hope in an an industry entrenched in enslaved child labor, irresponsible corporate greed, and tasteless, synthetic products. 'From currency to candy, chocolate reflects a rich history saturated with sacred ritual, endorphin highs, hip anti-oxidants, exotic sensuality and high quality luxury. Nothing Like Chocolate adds new depth to the stories of chocolate.'
Definitely see the trailer and look out for the documentary...
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Because communication from the ship is limited - the crew can only send about one email per day - some messages arrive with a title delay... Like todays post, which was written by Mott on his birthday and it seems he had a very nice one on the boat, including a whale that came very nearby, jumping several times and spraying its water in the air, a magnificent site he writes...
I especially loved the post of Mott's blog today so I decided to make a short compilation of his experiences so far, to follow the highlights of the 23 days on the sea so far;
week 1:
'We are going 7.7 knots right...
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The team of the Grenada Chocolate Company has been preparing and wrapping 4 tons of chocolate to go on the boat (yes: that’s 24.000 bars…). Everything is ready to go on board and for the first time they will have to miss Mott for a period as long as 2 months that he will be on board with the chocolates. Enough reasons to come and inspect the boat themselves!
The staff of the factory and several cocoa farmers came down from Hermitage to St George (about an hour drive in beautiful curvy roads with tropical forest). The boat is lying in a secured area of the harbor so we all passed security...
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Just a short post to show you how happy chocolate can make people! the crew obviously is a bit deprived of a few things on the ship while sailing, and chocolate is one of the most important things they mention... Usually they take a piece when they leave a harbor but that finishes quickly and than it can be weeks without.
Four of the crew members were the first to taste the Grenada Chocolate and I think the look on their face says it all :)
For them its a dream come true sailing on a ' chocolate boat' and several times have asked if the storage room will be locked during sailing. But Mott...
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