i live, let's go picking a yeah. let me me, there's always farmers that are pushing to figure out how they can produce better quality. but they're usually the exception. we have farmers here who have break and now i have chocolate makers coming next week who want to buy that can count the

numbers to fit on. so my name is esperanza, the unit you you had, and i'm the manager of the agrarian coffee cooperative and go on, tell you who i have been at the co op for 20 years. my goal, since i joined the cooperative i was not to be here for so many years when i told you that it was for one year. however, i stayed for 7 years because we had to investigate health le recorded but i do want to sell that. so we have joined the trade market and that's what we want for the cross chocolate makers. you can let us know and to understand us. they are small businesses. and we are as well with small scale producers working through the cooperative learning together. okay. level sense because the market price goes up and down, but sometimes the price is so low that the pharma simply cut down the calvin trans, banana. and if they continue to be poll,

each member has about one or 2. hector's more producers. they are not producing thought is no longer on this group, and we're here at the open. i've been going on my team and i've been coming here for the last 3 years working with operative, when i make my visit to prove to help them improve their quality. if we can get the installations improved, then our odds are going to go up tremendously. but no matter what material they have in the field, how good there might be are not doing a good post harvest process if they're not doing good fermentation and slow drawing of cow. that flavors not gonna really come up for the chocolate makers and it's not going to be acceptable for sale to export. did you know that can tell deans i'm

fermented they have to be from other why they can be humbled united way stuff. but it's not the for the seats that were asked for a letter from the killer mutation we found out each job maker has their own unique methods for these sugar and other flavors are often added here before bring. ready it in tomorrow know you're chuckle, it is ready to have you never know why all commercial chuckle needs kind of the big industrial guys will normally just burn the quality of the venus worthington and now you know how much time and cherry takes to make

sure to go for him and enjoy the chuckle. traveling with dan and neat and ryan. i mean those are all 3 of those guys are, are. so grades are generous when they're their knowledge and so we can't buy a contain luca cow on our own. we're just not big enough to do that. and so working together really is the only way that any of us can can buy a container. lou on our own, the, the much more optimistic than i was initially thinking i'd be upon the visit was really

great to hear all the stuff that they've been taking to separate out. been, we were talking about what color tarps were going to be best for insulating the boxes overnight. here when it, when it gets pretty cold, we're talking about how many days it should be before you start to see lines in the bean. we're talking about how many days the be interested in the top boxes, buckets versus bags for storing what cow. and these are sort of the, the nuanced questions they're really going to like. they're really gonna push this forward and take them to, to a new level and better help us understand what the ideal way for them to process and how it's going to be looking at looking really good morning like carries of fruit and like a lot of fruit it comes in a lot of different branches saying to think of careful, argue about these all the time. but there are roughly 11 different varieties of

count, most of the research up and, you know, having forges and finding, including the indies. these were the struggle that make one more yield, but less focused labor. the craft chuckled makers are trying to push back to keep well variety with their interesting flavor profile for life and supported around the base contains the largest amount of urls and by right out, which really to many scientists to believe that oh god could have originated from your room while always counting the rain for but as far as to be sure these are mariah gal when he's growing under the rain forest can initiate the radius tree. ready this makes it such a great crowd because like many other fruits, vegetables and lifestyle,

you don't need to go down there or reach any range forest read to her by somebody when family chocolate makers are asking about the history of the tree and where this material came from who grew it and. busy how it happened, where the seed came from, the travel as me. yes, it was brought from the wild and that's the here. hey, it's hard to say who planted it. we don't really know. he could have been we don't really know. they want to know who planted it, and when this one here is about 10 years in the nursing home, anytime i arrive on a sourcing especially improve, it's always just incredible energy. going to get together with the other. talk makers that in a lane, ryan, and knock one white queued in

a straw hat down and telling people like this is how you need to do. this is how you need to why and i'm going to make you the chocolate growers in the world. i think as a crap shop, an industry, we have a lot of work to do to build infrastructure, to support the farmers here. it's not just one group or one person, but that there, you know, we are this sort of faith as potentially an enormous market for them. amazon is a highest bio diverse place on earth. it's also the place where we have a huge force there which are helping us and maintain carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. if we were to pick the worst place on earth and grow

plantation crops, it would be here in the door . this is the 30th all of the areas around what used to be before so bumper today. so they are huge plains without tree. and the trees have been lost. not being 949, a forest thing, all the way that they were at the trees can be cut down. they continue to do it because there is a good price equal to demanding more pineapple thing. pineapple has a lot of health benefits. now they're going to be in the tiny pool, feels spreading some more areas here. but if it's causing deforestation causing a logical imbalance, hearing me with a cow, we are trying to recruit some humidity in this environment. it is so dry that will eventually end up being a death. but by growing a cow,

we are trying to avoid this. that because content is from the forest, it is native, the forest mother i. there are at least 300000 d. far as detectives that don't have any economic value anymore in these areas. need to be refers to within a forestry system in which cal plays the primary role tech. how it works well. and as far as 3 systems as of 2 or 3 years ago, we have approximately 25000 productive hectic in the region. 14. ah the ah good in flowering nicely. flower. sorry. we don't

know what we don't want to knock them down. it could be that this one is the bad. it could be this one isn't right. we don't think this one is ready. we want bright yellow was mighty you, i asked her father or you look at this s and no no, and where is the tree and find nothing where the tree is over there on the hill loma? yeah, you don't need to. this is the native cow here. this is we brought in. that's right . and so these are the seeds i've been asking my dad to bring some more. i get it up. i see me. in a lot of these communities they used to live much more nomadic. they, they were coming from different areas and they kind of settled in this region. a lot of them just in the last 20 years or so. it's okay with yeah,

oh, i love 2 of those days. i i very 40 to 43. i don't know how many i know when you're starting another. i don't know exactly what can we afford for me we need to get 25 so that we

can fill in that 1st priority. we're getting more than 20 back. we've got, we've got a sample of a single right here, which is awesome. me got another one of them over here i. we had enough to produce a sample of this single variety table from here, which is fantastic. we've been trying to get it now for the last couple of weeks and haven't had having a tree with enough, but ah, ah,

the this is our main riding. and then this one, i don't know what we're going to get. that's not a very big harvest. you back at 3 where you get german age is not how much she gets

out of that in the us. i mean, so the got a little too hot sitting on the balcony and elia but there wasn't much of a choice. that's what we had. so we're looking at a decrease in the sugars in the pulp and we're looking at the beam starting to oxidize some of them or even starting to germinate. and to top it off the cow that both come in today to the for mentary here is not coming in till tomorrow. so we have to let these sit out for another 12 at least 12 hours. right now. it doesn't look good. and that sort of in the fema strip is that we just really don't know until we get somewhere. and once again,

we are arriving somewhere else with our samples. we can't do the thing that we want to do. first step is to get them up here for training and maybe the next. that's like the next step to take is conceive, identify somebody on the ground, you can come up here for a training, see a real fermentation process in operation. and then take that knowledge back and implemented on the ground. i think that's a great for me. hey, ryan. good cool. what that these are, are those big things that at least we can maybe get something out of. yeah, we can at least maybe do it. so we got to say how many pounds,

i don't know like less a lot less than i thought. so this one is from the woman who has a basket supplies to be bought. okay. and these are the ones that we fall harvest from the 3 of them went over there we go, the coloring and you can walk away from the go a lot going on or we knew it was really quickly. yeah. good. good. good. well, at the end of the day, like what rock is trying to do, and i think what a lot of other craft committees are trying to do is we're trying to do business. and one of the messages that we want to get out there is that

business can be done in a way in which of benefits everyone in, in a way in which everyone involved feels like they're respected. and part of the process, i guess i've always been someone who's been able to see through hypocrisy. and you see that in the way a lot of people try to do good in some of the places that i visit where it's not it's not a 100 percent about about helping people or about necessarily doing good. but it occasionally comes from place of guilt or

a place of self fulfillment. i don't really think that to me it's really about that. it's about it's about exposing like the system that that people have bought into and then people have sort of turned to bly blind i to in the attempt to be able to justify the way in which they live. your museum feels sad because i work so hard just to be able to eat with me. but

there are times that i feel happy because i know how to work. but while working on the land you can still study. i want to go with the international business. we can wheeling legit again you can do that. but as you know him by family. yeah. that's what i would like to do. i'm when i'm done with that, i would like to come back kids be an agronomist. me you can turn it on my mccormick. i will make it a lot. when i leave i don't know. i will only come back one or 2 days at a time. then i will be very sad to go, but that's why i want to be in a corner message or whatever on the, on my side as easy way for

me. me. me? are you going to be? i did, i did talk to it. we're really excited that we were able to pull some beans out of there because the trip prior we weren't actually able to pull any of these pods or beads out of there. so and hopefully they make amazing chocolate. and we can let the farmers know that that, hey, in the back of your yard,

you have these trees that can produce some of the best chocolate that we've ever made. and we're crossing our fingers and hoping that it actually does make amazing chocolate. these are from. 1 trees that are over a 100 year old, where no one in the community remember where they came from. cocoa trees typically only fruit for about 20 years. the fact that these are brooding, 8090 a 100 years old, means that they're likely pretty productive. so we're going to a different type of talk, take some notes or talk a little bit about what you pay and whether or not you think that the potential for rocca the this pretty much this represents about like 8590 pounds a pot. you can tell that we like preserved a lot of flavors. they didn't want to like over us. did so you can't hold them or they're don't have really similarity enough, but this is deeper,

richer. yeah. yeah, for sure. i could use this every day, but this is more interesting, but yeah, i mean, is this something that you guys would want to see rocco, like, spend time and energy and finances in trying to get these been to market, trying to get them into our factory to use on a more consistent basis. yeah, i mean, i think we didn't use, i think and the whole purpose of pasting it is so that we can back that up actually with actual interest intervenes that are be like, oh plant, these are great. now we actually know that we can go back down there and talk to the people that we met with and let them know, hey, the chocolate from these old trees. you have really, really good and it's really important. they don't cut these trees down.

or there was a good awards or a go as far as a finalist and they were there was gonna start here a little bit and we'll find out it was actually a winner words as an annual recognition as the top producers of small cost of food and a lot of different categories, looking for sustainability and transparency, and then in the supply chain. and on the way over elaine and i were talking about camping on the robot, the river in esperanza, the farmers that can go and be who right now is a big down in columbia somewhere. probably camping in the rain for us looking for the account. and there are so many steps and so many people involved in the like 3 year long process to get here that just be nominated as grave. hopefully help with that story and bring more awareness to everything that goes into making

a bar of chocolate and then winning would obviously be great though and it is again, it is south of bar. but i think the whole point is that it's we're not making chocolate, just because it's chocolate, it's really about the people that are involved in it. and there's so many people that were involved in making a bar. and so, you know, i just feel like we're here on the happen me

ah ah, we've got a lot of, you know, realistic about the amount of impact that we're able to make. and i'm fearful for the destruction that's going on in these areas. i'm worried that we're

not able to do enough. so we have to, i think really celebrate the successes that we have, but not lose side of the fact that there's an urgent need for us to do more. ah ah ah ah

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