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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: Piura river valley
The forest: Andanjo Community Reserve with a size of 13.922 Ha
Rare wildlife: Glorious blue skippers, sechurian fox, peruvian desert cat, henna-hooded gleaners, grey-backed hawks, southern tamanduas
Original bean: Ultra-rare, Piura Blanco cacao
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.

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ONE BAR : ONE TREE > GO SEE

Over the 10+ years since discovering and sourcing the ultra rare Piura Blanco cacao, One Bar : One Tree has changed a lot of things in Piura. Shaded forests have sprung up on deserted lands, meager rice fields have given way to rich cacao gardens, farmer incomes have more than doubled, and a strong regional cooperative makes the voices of growers heard.

ALL THIS IS POSSIBLE THANKS TO YOUR PURCHASE!

“Farmers here plant timber trees to save for the retirement of themselves and their children.”

Lenin Mena,
Head of the Social Development Department,
Municipality of Paimas

Around our village more than one hundred families have improved their incomes, because they became cacao growers for Original Beans.

Daniel Lopez,
Field Officer in Puerta Pulache

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