PROJECT TIMELINE
Updated: October 2023
Spring 2023
We established a new nursery for 35,000 seedlings.
Winter 2022
Our local partner successfully renewed organic certification.
Autumn 2022
The seedlings are distributed to smallholder farmers.
Spring 2022
A new nursery for 30.000 seedlings gets established.
Winter 2021
Our Udzungwa 70% chocolate bar makes it back to the cacao growers and the technical team of our partner KokoaKamili.
Autumn 2021
Our local partner onboards 400 additional growers to the organic certification process, which includes capacity building and field training courses.
Summer 2021
Our cacao growers distribute and plant 26.360 new cacao seedlings.
Spring 2021
The local partner sets up a nursery for 25.000 cacao seedlings to continue converting low-income generating corn monocultures into organically managed cacao forests.
Winter 2020
The local partner strengthens its efforts to teach organic and regenerative agriculture practices for smallholder farmers.
Autumn 2020
Our local partner offers training courses in organic agriculture and the best agricultural practices for over 500 smallholder farmers.
Summer 2020
The local partner distributes cacao seedlings to over 100 smallholder farmers.
Spring 2020
Our local partners sets up a cacao nursery for 40.000 seedlings.
Winter 2019
Our local partner STEP prepares and executes training courses on beekeeping.
Summer 2019
Our local partner STEP monitores Udzungwa’s mountain-climbing elephants: cameras show that many elephants are using the Magombera forest edge,
and have provided the first photographic evidence of elephants moving
between the two forests.
Spring 2019
Our Bean Team distributed 38.000 cacao trees and 15.000 native wood species for reforestation of degraded areas.
Spring 2019
Our local partner begins the Shade Tree program.
Autumn 2018
Our local partner launches the second bees & elephants campaign.
Spring 2018
Over 3000 farmers are being registered for agricultural extension.
Winter 2017
Together with STEP, our Bean Team establishes the first beehive fences for the Bees & Elephants Campaign at the Udzungwa national park.
Autumn 2017
Our Bean Team starts a conservation partnership with the Southern Tanzania Elephant Program (STEP).
Autumn 2017
Our local partners launches the first bees & elephants campaign.
Autumn 2017
Our Bean Team begins a conservation partnership with the Southern Tanzanian elephant program.
Summer 2017
Our local partner KokoaKamili supportes the growth of 94.300 cacao seedlings in their central nursery.
Spring 2017
Our local partner distributes 40,000 cacao seedlings to the growers.
Spring 2016
Our local team begins the process of organic certification for the Udzungwa Trinitario cacao beans.
Spring 2016
Our local partner distributes 50,000 cacao seedlings to the growers.
Autumn 2015
Our local partners purchases of the first Udzungwa cacao.
Spring 2015
Our Bean Team begins with organic certification.
Udzungwa 70% with nibs
Warm whispers of orange and toffee reverberate as an ultra rare Trinitario cacao makes its way through your senses, echoing the elephants’ playfully winding journey from the mountain forest to the savannah.