PROJECT TIMELINE
Updated: October 2023
Summer 2023
Bean Team member Rosaura is participating in capacity training with our long-term partners, Alto Urubamba and CAMSA, to concentrate on quality assessment and flavour evaluation, bolstering our post-harvest protocol for Chuncho cacao.
Spring 2023
One of two clonal gardens, identified by the local team, has begun producing in just three years. This secures the genetics of the ancestral Chuncho trees, yielding the most flavourful cacao trees that can be supplied to local growers, ensuring the purity of the unique native Chuncho cacao.
Spring 2023
Original Beans’ bean team, consisting of Rosaura and Jan, is visiting Cooperative Alto Urubamba to review their long-term partnership and align activities for the next 2 years. They are also meeting local farmers to ensure they receive premium prices and gain a better understanding of their actual living income and expenses.
Winter 2022
The 40,650 seedlings are distributed to 100+ families to establish new cacao agroforestry systems.
Autumn 2022
The timber trees delivered to local growers about 7 years ago have grown beautifully, standing tall and mighty.
Summer 2022
Alto Urubamba raises and manages 40,650 seedlings of edible tree species, including cacao, coffee, timber, and various fruit tree species, in local nurseries.
Spring 2022
Team bean member Rosaura Laura is doing a training course at our local fermentation & drying center Alto Urubamba on quality evaluation.
Winter 2021
Yunder Cuchilla, head of native cacao conservation of the pervuian cacao organization, is visiting the Urubamba valley to evaluate our selection of mother stock trees of ancestral Chuncho.
Autum 2021
After 3 years of collecting & evaluating a collection of more than 200 potential mother stock trees, conserving ancestral Chunhco genetics, and two colonel gardens are getting installed.
Summer 2021
34.000 Chuncho cacao seedlings are being distributed to the cacao growers in the remote Urubamba valley by our local partner.
Spring 2021
Our partners selected highly productive and genetically pure ancestral Chuncho trees, which will be evaluated for several years to distribute the best seedlings to our growers.
Spring 2021
Our local partner began to build a new nursery with a capacity of 50.000 cacao trees and 25.000 timber wood trees to strengthen our reforestation efforts in the region.
Winter 2020
Our growers planted 68.200 seedlings grown in the local nurseries in their cacao forests in the Urubamba valley.
Summer 2020
Our cacao growers set up a nursery for coffee, cacao and timber wood.
Spring 2020
Our Bean Team included the indigenous Machiguenga community in the project to support their efforts of preserving ancestral Chuncho trees and to produce high-quality organic Chuncho cacao.
Winter 2019
Our partners built a new fermentation center in Quillabamba to be able to process our Chuncho cacao centrally, which in turn gives more benefit to smallholder farmers.
Summer 2019
Together with our partners from the Ccochahuasi Animal Sanctuary, we liberated the first condor.
Spring 2019
Ing. Rosaura Laura joined the bean team to lead the project in Cusco.
Autumn 2018
Our cacao growers and partners planted 37.000 cacao and forest trees in the area of the Urubamba Valley.
Spring 2018
Our partners set up the first nursery in the Cusco region.
Autumn 2017
Our Bean Team partnered up with Bioversity International in a research project on cacao genetics.
Spring 2017
Our Bean Team developed a Chuncho selection project with Biodiversity International.
Summer 2016
Our first purchase of pure, selected Chuncho cacao!
Spring 2016
Together with our partners, we accomplished the organic certification for and with our cacao growers.
Autumn 2015
Our Bean Team initiated a group of cacao growers and began the organic certification process with them.
Spring 2015
Our Bean Team liaised with cacao growers who own ancestral Chuncho trees and who were interested in producing high-quality cacao to engage in organic, forest-friendly agriculture.
Summer 2014
First trip of our Original Beans Bean Team member Jan Schubert, searching for real, pure Chuncho cacao.
Cusco 100%
Tastes of dried flowers and grass mark the absolute altitude of this rarest of rare Chuncho cacao, a singular offering from the lands of the mighty condor.