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Tropical Wholefoods<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s Fairtrade Fortnight, hurrah!\u00a0 It\u2019s the season when we all have a chance to consider what we buy and where it\u2019s come from.\u00a0 As we\u2019re munching on some yummy food or dressing ourselves in new clothes in the morning, this is the time for us to have a good think about who is involved in producing some of the things we buy.\u00a0 Are the workers who pick my bananas being paid properly?\u00a0 Are the weavers of my new top given a fair wage?<\/p>\n

You may already know that this Fairtrade Fortnight we\u2019re selling a hamper<\/a> packed full of breakfast goodies (Helen wrote a lovely blog<\/a> about it) to promote some of the brands already established in the fair trade field and to raise awareness of Fairtrade.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to know how our food and drink have been produced, so it seems like a fine opportunity to reveal the journey of each of the products in this hamper, and how they have achieved their status of being certified by the Fairtrade Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To start us off, we\u2019re taking a peek at the story behind the energy snack bars from Tropical Wholefoods<\/a>, a company that have been around since the 1990s, importing all sorts of dried fruits and nuts into the country.\u00a0 Choosing to work with ethical businesses, paying fair prices well in advance to workers all over the world, they\u2019re achieving some great work.<\/p>\n

At a glance, here\u2019s the journey of how their Apricot & Kernel Bar<\/a> has made it\u2019s way to our hamper:<\/p>\n

In the northern area of Pakistan, apricots grow.\u00a0 The highland environment of the Karakorum and Himalayan Mountains where the apricot fruit trees thrive are irrigated by pure glacial melt water so the apricots are wonderfully bright and tangy.\u00a0 In the surrounding area, the communities are poor and live in harsh conditions, but Mountain Fruits, a Pakistani Fairtrade dried fruit and nut company, train the Northern Farmers in Pakistan to farm effectively.\u00a0 They dry the tasty apricots in the sun and sell them to a number of companies, including Tropical Wholefoods, who pay them a fair wage.\u00a0 (Over the years, the income that Mountain Fruits generate has helped support the local community, providing materials for schools, playgrounds, water tanks, sewing machines and generators.)
\nThe tasty apricots are then flown to the UK, to Sunderland in fact, where friendly people blend generous helpings of them with a plethora of other ingredients.\u00a0 The fruity mix is then rolled out and baked in a big oven at a low temperature.\u00a0 The friendly people at Tropical Wholefoods then allow it to cool, slice up the mix into bars and package them into perfect snackable sizes.<\/em><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how one company are striving to make an impact in the lives of poor communities elsewhere in the world.\u00a0 Keep an eye out for more blogs, an insight into some of the other Fairtrade produce we sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Fairtrade Fortnight, hurrah!\u00a0 It\u2019s the season when we all have a chance to consider what we buy and where it\u2019s come from.\u00a0 As we\u2019re munching on some yummy food or dressing ourselves in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-trade","category-food-drink","tag-fairtrade-fortnight"],"yoast_head":"\nFairtrade Fortnight Producer Stories: Tropical Wholefoods - Ethical Blog from Ethicalsuperstore.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/food-drink\/fairtrade-fortnight-producer-stories-tropical-wholefoods\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fairtrade Fortnight Producer Stories: Tropical Wholefoods - 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