Commitments
Three ties you can trace
A wood fire in Guatemala, a sailing ship on the Atlantic, an old station in Limburg.
Our commitments rest on things that exist: families with names, a route that crosses the ocean under sail, a workshop where we transform our own beans. The wider frame, that of common goods, is set out in Common Goods.
Guatemala
Tuq'Tuquilal,
55 families
In Alta Verapaz, the families of the Red Ratzum network grow cacao, around one hectare each. At the Tuq'tuquilal centre, the beans ferment, dry, go over the wood fire, then are peeled and ground.
Since 2018, we have been receiving this finished cacao, and with it the work done in Lanquín.
Transport
Under sail,
with Timbercoast and New TowT
Some of our beans cross the Atlantic under sail. Those from Maya Mountain, in Belize, travel aboard the Avontuur with Timbercoast and arrive in Hamburg. La Carrera and Tomé-Açu cross with New TowT and arrive in Le Havre.
It is slower. The length of the crossing belongs to the wind, and we gladly accept that.
Belgium
The workshop,
in Heks
At La Station, the old tram station in Heks, Jonathan looks after the roasting and winnowing; the tempering and moulding, the two of us do together. The beans we transform go through these steps: measured heat, hours of grinding, the paste poured into the moulds.
Continue
Keep going
In Heks, we picture other hands beside the oven and the stone grinder.
The next chapter will be written with them too.