Thank you for growing a tree!
together we regenerate what we consume in piura, peru
Soccer fields of dry forest are being preserved
seedlings were grown in local nurseries
farmer families received organic certification
tree nurseries are up and running
Your tree grows here
| Area: | “Amazonas Province” or “Utcubamba river valley or Five rovers of Amazonas” |
| The forest: | Santuario nacional Cordillera de Colán; 39 216 Ha |
| Rare wildlife: | Military macaw, Scarlet-fronted parakeet, Long-whiskered owlet, Koepcke’s hermit … and more than 500 other bird species |
| Original bean: | ultra rare, Genetics: Cajamarca -Amazonas |
| Your growers: | 90 families in 3 villages |
TIMELINE
Updated: October 2023
Spring 2023
Our cacao growers planted approximately 5,000 timber trees to aid the existing cacao forests. Timber trees offer shade, enhance flora diversity on cacao farms, and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. In addition to these natural benefits, planting timber trees also offers long-term economic advantages by creating additional income for the farmers.
Winter 2022
The timber trees distributed to farmer families by our Bean Team Leader Jan, in the Piura mountain range in 2020, are thriving and growing tall and mighty.
Winter 2022
Our local team is assisting 18 farmer families in pruning the trees on their self-owned cacao farms, which include massive 100-year-old cacao trees. This ensures increased productivity and, as a result, improved income for our growers.
Autumn 2022
Our local team trained farmers in Loma Larga to produce organic fertilizers and collaborated with the Peruvian cacao association to provide materials for 33 smallholder farmers to make their own organic liquid manure.
Summer 2022
In the community-run nursery in Pacaipampa, part of the Piura mountain range, 115,600 tree seedlings have been grown. This area is about 5 hours uphill from the cacao-growing region, where reforestation plays a vital role in protecting Piura’s watersheds.
Summer 2022
The local community in San Pablo has planted 16,665 pine trees to reforest their degraded lands and support the watersheds in the upper Piura mountains.
Visit the complete project
ONE BAR : ONE TREE > GO SEE
- New project started in 2024
- Area dominated by modern hybrids but the cradle of native cacao
-> just in time to preserve them by prompting the usage
- First “Denominaction of origin” for cacao in Peru to preserve ancestral genetics
- Close to the archaeological side Monte Grande where the oldest usage of cacao has been proven (5.500 years ago)
- Small holder farmers | agroforestry | organic farming
- Made in Peru – produced in the factory of Norandino owned by smallholder farmers
PARTNERs in Piura
Amazonas 68 %
Flavours of raspberry, dried prunes and pecan divulge the secrets of this ultra rare white cacao—nature’s delicious mistake— we found along Peru’s coastal desert, the habitat of a diverse and bright butterfly collection.