Ashland Chocolate Festival & Dagoba of Ashland
04Mar2007 04:05 PM Worthy Causes
Today we
attended the Ashland Chocolate
Festival which
was rather tasty; some remarkably delicious (for a
non-chocaholic) gourmet chocolate fare of all
sorts, from a number of high quality vendors,
mostly locals. The highlight for me (and all the
fare was outstanding!) was the talk (and ware
samplings) from local producer, Dagoba, which
presented a very inspiring and compelling hour of
details about not only the importance of "fair
trade", but some of the ramifications of what is
really going on behind the public relations, and
who is really walking their talk.
Dagoba is! (We
get their chocolate locally from the
Ashland Food
Coop.)
Highly recommended from both culinary and activist
perspectives... When you visit their website, wait
until the photo of the adorable sloth comes
around; we saw some in the trees in
Costa Rica when we
were there a few years ago and were inspired by
them. Our interconnected, vote-with-your-wallet
choices DO make a difference!
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