Chiefmonkey Blog

Hola. Welcome to Chiefmonkey, a blog about Primal Echo, LLC.
 
We’re a Colorado eco and socially–inspired trading company of gourmet specialty foods and artisan products for conscious planet dwellers. My name is Ana, and I’m the chief instigator of this joyous start–up.
 
We negotiate directly with our supply partners locally and globally so that we can guarantee extending a conscious hand to them in reciprocal win–win treaties whose by–products are fair–wages, high–craftsmanship and planetary sustainability.
 
Our company’s purpose on this planet is hardwired through a particular DNA code sequence programmed to be of service to our species and ecosystems and to be a positive influence on economic exchanges so that we may share the prosperity of our labor beside our grower and artisan partner families while bringing superior quality specialty foods and artisan works to our customers.
 
We’re launching our company with mouth–watering organic chocolate squares that are hand-crafted by artisan chocolatiers from Gringo & Tico lands, who studied their culinary yummy art in France. The cocoa is sourced from single-source cocoa farms that are certified organic and fair-trade by the Rainforest Alliance.
 
In 2010 we look forward to bringing you a scrumptious selection of Costa Rican organic certified fair–trade java (USDA organic and Transfair fair-trade certified) that’s roasted by the only solar roaster in the US located in Pueblo, CO.
 
We’ll also offer a line of cheery, humorous coffee culture postcards illustrated by a talented Costa Rican artist and written by a gifted writer who offers clever and insightful coffee culture factoids and coffee drink recipes.
 
If you’d like to check our chocolate selections and see what other types of sustainably made goodies we’ll bring to your door in 2010, take a peek at Our Trading Post.
 
Our monkeys are committed to co–building this company in a way that is respectful of people, mindful of our impact on the planet and balanced in its economic viability so we may practice active sustainability as a company.
 
We’ll donate 1% of every product sale to Lily Moon, an emerging rural sustainable project in Costa Rica that will benefit US and Costa Rican supply partners, their children, disadvantaged kiddos and the local community in which we’ll operate. And while Primal Echo is the body of our company, Lily Moon Sustainability Lodge is its soul.
            
We hope you dig what you find a quarter–coconut as much as we delight in offering your taste buds, your planetary meter, your connection to community and your interest in receiving excellent personal service–– an experience that’s gratifying and unique. Lots more to come, folks!
 
Bienvenidos to our treehouse.
 
Ana Arias, Founder & CMO (Chief Monkey Officer)
 
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