Bare Bones Chocolate

Product Highlights

Product: Organic hand-made chocolate and cacao powder

Origin: Ambanja, Madagascar

Community: Union de Coopératives Lazan’ny Sambirano (UCLS)

Certification: Organic certified

Mission: Chocolate should be pure, delicious, and ethical. Bare Bones aspires to raise the bar for taste and sustainability in the chocolate and food scene by demonstrating how incredible cacao can taste without additives like soya lecithin, vegetable fats, or E-numbers. Their process honors the farmers, cacao, and the makers of the chocolate.

Agroforestry:
Shade-grown

Product Overview

The UCLS Cooperative in the Ambanja region of Madagascar empowers cacao farmers to protect the Sambirano’s unique rainforest ecosystem. The forest is important for both the production and flavor of the cacao. With support from Rainforest Alliance, a project was launched to plant new trees to battle soil erosion. Farmers are encouraged to reforest land with native shade trees and grow cocoa under their canopy creating buffer zones around primary forests and helping to prevent erosion.