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A small cottage style operation produces chocolate bars in a solar powered chocolate factory in the village of Hermitage which is surrounded by cocoa farms.
The Grenada Chocolate Company Ltd. was founded in 1999 with the idea of creating an Organic Cocoa Farmers' and Chocolate-Makers' Cooperative.  We now have over 150 acres of organic cocoa farms in our cooperative and operate our own cocoa fermentry, located one mile from our little factory. This assures that we perform every activity involved in the production of our chocolate, from the planting and growing of the cocoa trees to the fermenting of the fresh cocoa beans to the processing of our fine dark chocolate. We grow our cocoa totally naturally without the use of any chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers and have been Certified Organic.Our sugar is a fine organic raw sugar produced and milled by an organic growers' cooperative in Paraguy. Whole organic vanilla beans grown biodynamically in Costa Rica provide our "dash" of vanilla. Organic soy lecithin is used as emulsifier in extremely small amounts. We are one of the only small-scale chocolate-makers producing fine chocolate where the cocoa grows. Because small batch chocolate-making is very rare, we had to create our own processing methods, desigining our own machines and refurbishing antique equipment to meet the requirements of our unique situation. Most of our machines are based in design on those of the early 1900's, a time when quality had precedence over quantity in chocolate-making. Because we care about our environment, we use solar-electric energy to power our machines. The original impetus and principle of our cooperative company is to revolutionize the cocoa-chocolate system that typically keeps cocoa production separate from chocolate-making and therefore takes advantage of cocoa farmers.We believe that the cocoa farmers should benefit as much as the chocolate-makers. We just won the Silver Award from the Academy of Chocolate! Organic Chocolate bars (3 oz/85 gr) Ingredients: Organic* cocoa beans, Organic* raw cane sugar, fresh Organic* cocoa butter, Organic* soy lecithin (an emulsifier) and Organic* whole vanilla beans. (Our bars are 4oz/113gr in Grenada) *Certified according to the USDA-NOP final rule by CERES (Certfier of Environmental Standards) GmbH/Certfied according to regulation EEC 2092/91 by CERES Gmbh SweetyPodsTM Organic Chocolate pieces in the shape of cocoa pods, individually wrapped in fancy foil.  Our Organic Dark Chocolate comes in two strengths:60% Chocolate: sweet and rich with an intense and complex chocolate flavour 71% Chocolate: strong bitter-sweet with extra fruity cocoa flavour notes ***all our products are guaranteed nut-free, not a trace!*** Pure Organic Cocoa Powder(6oz/170gr recloseable pouches): Pure and delicious, perfect for hot-chocolate, chocolate ice-cream, baking, etc. Grenada's cocoa is known for its extra rich flavour and strength. Our Organic* Cocoa Powder is uniquely rich and flavourful because of our small scale relatively low-pressure cocoa butter press and, of course, because of the special taste of our cocoa beans! *Certified according to the USDA-NOP final rule by CERES (Certifier of Environmental Standards) GmbH/Certfied according to regulation EEC 2092/91 by CERES GmbH *Certified according to the USDA-NOP final rule by BCS Oeko-Garantie GmbH/Certfied according to regulation EEC 2092/91 by BCS Oeko-Garantie Gmbh ***all our products are guaranteed nut-free, not a trace!***
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The Grenada Chocolate Company is a cooperative in Grenada making organic dark chocolate from bean to bar as well as growing the cocoa in Grenada
The Grenada Chocolate Company was founded in 1999, producing high quality dark varietal chocolate in Grenada using local cocoa and cocoa butter, with care for the environment and workers. 
According to one of the founders, it's more than procrastination that's kept them from filing the paperwork: Fair-trade chocolate companies still, almost exclusively, process the value-added product in the first world with raw materials they import from the equatorial belt where cocoa grows. | Random Content | |
