Large Dominican Republic 70% Single Origin Bar

Ingredients: Organic Dominican Republic cacao, Colorado sugar, Organic cocoa butter. 60 gram (2.1oz) bar  Direct trade. Charles Kerchner is a consulting forester who worked in the Dominican Republic in the Peace Corps. He fell in love with the landscape, and at the time also fell in love with cocoa. Working with partners and landowners in the DR, they formed a team that initiated the first private reserve in the Dominican Republic, as part of the National Protected Area System. Reserva Zorzal has become a model for private landowners to participate in landscape-level conservation. It’s organic. Zorzal Cacao has a story that goes well beyond just being organic and direct trade. Reserva Zorzal has set aside 70% of its 1,019 acres as “forever wild”, devoted to the wintering grounds of Bicknell’s thrush, which of course benefits biodiversity and many other species. This rare and threatened bird breeds on remote mountaintops in the Northeastern United States. Seeing or hearing one is a rare