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SUMMARY:Heritage Radio Network Interview - Marc Boatwright
DESCRIPTION:Marc is the founder of Choctal, the makers of the first si
 ngle-origin chocolate ice cream line in the US. Choctal expanded to cr
 eate a complementary line of single-origin vanillas.\n \nWhile in Cos
 ta Rica, Marc met David Gardella, who has been working to teach farmer
 s to interplant vanilla on their cocoa plantations. Good cocoa might f
 etch a farmer $1400-$4000/MT, but vanilla is currently at about $50 pe
 r kilo, or about $50,000/MT. David has a nursery and provides technica
 l and other assistance as well as providing a guaranteed market/buyer.
 \n \nMarc, David, and VEC have embarked on a project called the Oxyge
 n Farming Foundation, with the first project in Haiti. If deforestatio
 n is part of the problem of climate change (due to cutting down trilli
 ons of trees in the past 50 years) then planting trees is a good thing
 . Combining cocoa and vanilla on a single farm provides the economic i
 ncentive to plant and grow trees, not cut them down.\n\nFor more infor
 mation visit http://www.thechocolatelife.com/events/heritage-radio-net
 work-interview-marc-boatwright
DTSTART:20130206T200000Z
DTEND:20130206T203000Z
CATEGORIES:interview
LOCATION:Heritage Radio Network Studio @ Roberta's Pizza
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