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December 2016
LOCAL INFORMATION & ADVERTISING
Local company with sweet global mission
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By Laurel Robertson
ob and Tracey Wilson started Dripping Springs Chocolate Company to sweeten up life for people – on both sides of the equator. In 2014, when the couple traveled to Nicaragua on a mission trip with the Hill Country Bible Church, they were struck by the poverty they found there and wanted to do something to help. Charity would be good, they thought, but what the people there really needed was jobs, they realized. The Wilsons, who have owned and run a globally-marketed business for years, researched likely exports from tropical regions and were interested to discover that cacao (the chocolate plant) grows only within 10-15 degrees
of the equator. They also learned that the worldwide chocolate industry is notorious for using child slave labor. Buying chocolate beans from small farmers who ethically grow their crops seemed the perfect answer for their objective. After conducting multiple taste tests and quality checks and researching supply availability, Bob and Tracey chose organic chocolate beans from Ecuador. All of the beans they use are certified by the Rain Forest Alliance to be organically grown, ethically sourced and raised on plantations that don’t disturb the rainforest to produce them. Learning to transform those raw See DRIPPING SPRINGS CHOCOLATE, page 2
Tracey and Bob Wilson, owners of Dripping Springs Chocolate Company, chocolate with a mission. Photo courtesy Dripping Springs Chocolate Company.
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