I Chocolate Blog

Not all chocolate bars are created equal. It’s easy to make a chocolate bar with a beautiful label, but it’s harder to produce chocolate with a purpose. The grim reality of the chocolate industry is that cocoa farmers have been plagued with a long history of extreme poverty, child labor, and even slave labor. Despite good intentions by the chocolate industry, these issues are still prevalent.

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That's a wrap for our very first Fair Trade Microgrants project with the coffee and cacao farmers of the Cooperativa Agraria Granos de Oro del Valle de Pangoa. Over the past six months, Peru-based Cooperativa utilized its Fair Trade Microgrants funds to pioneer a new agroforestry program. By planting 7,000 trees, this reforestation project will enhance the area’s biodiversity, improve water quality, and create long-term economic stability.

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This year, we’re proud to donate 1% of sales from our Signature Bar line to build stronger cacao growing communities with a new microgrants program with Fair Trade USA™.

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This year, we’re proud to be donating 1% of sales from our Signature Bar line to Project Tocache. This exciting initiative aims to bring essential infrastructure, like clean water supply, to the cacao farming cooperatives of Tocache in Peru.

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The price of chocolate is increasing at a drastic rate. Learn how disease, climate change, unsustainable farming practices and increasing prices for raw ingredients, freight, and labor continue to put added pressure on the cost to make chocolate.

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Africa is a long way from Vermont, but when chocolatier Lake Champlain Chocolates partners with New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian, the magical landscape of the Serengeti comes to life in the new limited-edition Lioness Chocolate Bar!

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