Mission Statement:
“Speak what’s true. Eat what’s pure. Preserve what’s rare.”
“Since 2008 we venture into remote rainforests to source the world’s rarest cacao beans and transform the cultures of chocolate, food and luxury. On our own we grow a regenerative business. Together, we regenerate what we consume.”
-Philipp Kauffmann
About Phillip Kauffmann (founder):
The founder of Original Beans, Philipp Kauffmann, is a 7th generational conservationist from the family that created the term “sustainability”. Philipp left his job as a part of the United Nations in New York City to establish Original Beans as the leading chocolate company that strives towards restoring harvested crops and land.
Original Beans Chocolate Sources
Udzungwa Mountains Park, Tanzania
Arhuaco Ancestral Lands, Colombia
Supporting Farmers
Original Beans gives farmers, mostly from indigenous families, long-term employment with twice the usual income. They are supporting 5,175 farming families.
Companies that use the terms fair trade actually add 5-10% onto world cocoa prices. This overused term is actually a fabrication to make an inequitable system that creates poverty and exploitation look glamourous. Original Beans promotes higher, more direct, and more secure prices to families farming their cacao. This gives them the ability to have a living income and hope for a better future.
Original Beans has ZERO INCIDENTS OF CHILD LABOUR to instead be a leading company in empowering young farmers.
Importance of Sustainable Chocolate
CLIMATE
Since 2010, Original Beans has focused on restoring the climate. All products are delivered using CO2 negative methods to wholesale customers. This is done by consciously designing a supply chain which reduces CO2 emissions. The manufacturing factory is also powered 100% by renewable energy.
Cheap chocolate industries are trying to force their cocoa trees to grow in full sun in ‘industrial mono-forests’. By giving our money to companies such as Original beans, we can help demolish the large corporations that are killing our trees, forests and the climate. The rainforests are being cut down to make space for cheap, industrial chocolate forests as we speak and the only way to shift this pattern is to stop buying food items that inherently disturb nature during production.
Compostable Packaging
If we continue to use plastic packaging, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish. The only solution is to eliminate plastic and switch over to compostable methods as Original Beans has done by using wood fibers. Using this type of packaging has been shown to be 80% better for the environment.
How to recycle Original beans packaging:
-Garden composting
-Recycle it as paper ( the aluminum layer that seals the chocolate does not interfere with bio-compostability)
The Statistics
12,860 tons of C02 drawn down
1,615,572 trees grown in orgin
1,833 tons of packaging waste eliminated
70+ more brands sourcing as “Original Beans Standard”
Track Your Tree
By buying a bar from Original Beans, you are also planting a tree (theoretically, but quite literally). Every tree that is planted in the rainforest empowers farmers, protects wildlife, and preserves the climate.
To track your tree, you can enter the code from your bar below and watch it grow.
If you don’t have a code, you can use the code: P914090740
https://originalbeans.com/onebaronetree/
Beni Wild Bolivian Bar 66%
The Beni is an archipelago of 40 forest islands called the ‘chocolatales‘ or “the chocolate islands”. Indigenous collectors harvest the Beniano beans that can only be reached by boat.
Endangered Species of Origin: Blue Throated Macaw
Taste Notes Listed-
Apricot, floral honey, jasmine tea
My Taste Notes-
Black cherry, almond extract, grapefruit (towards the back of your mouth)
*Difference between Potomac & Original Beans bar: milk vs. no milk, both 66%*
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