After embarking on this adventure to give value to our own to show the world, we have encountered realities so different yet geographically so close to our urban life, filled with cars, rush, and created needs. Beyond the mountains and around several tight curves, many potholes, sinkholes, and patched and re-patched roads, there is a world with a group of very simple people. By simple, we don’t mean backward or sluggish, but rather people who are content with a glass of well-fermented chicha, a dance, or well-organized family work.

There is much to learn for a society accustomed to easiness, to having everything quickly and not knowing how to wait.

We work with communities in the Amazon with incomes below $50 per month per family, many of them composed of more than 5 members. And we wonder, how does someone live on that income? Perhaps it’s sufficient because they source their food from their natural environment; fishing and cultivating their «chacras».

In our eagerness to showcase our abundance to the world, we added value to a fruit so common on the Ecuadorian table: the plantain. It’s not about the plantain obtained from large expanses, monoculture, or exhausted land, but rather the plantain grown in these small communities combined with fruits, a natural complement to traditional small-scale farming.

Proudly today, after 6 years of intense work, we already have 3 communities with whom we work permanently and 5 communities in the process of conversion towards 100% organic and sustainable agriculture in the long term.

We have eliminated the intermediaries who enter the most remote areas of our Coast and Amazon to pay ridiculous prices.

We pay fair and stable prices in the long term. Our allied farmers do not use pesticides or toxic substances for health and the environment. Napo, Orellana, Sucumbíos, Pastaza, Manabí, Los Ríos, Pichincha, Guayas, Santa Elena, and Zamora are the provinces where our communities of serious and committed organic farmers are located in all stages of agriculture: planting, fertilization, harvesting, post-harvest, collection, and logistics until arrival at our facilities.

In summary, our figures: 8 communities, 10 provinces, 3050 hectares, 8000 beneficiaries, 200% increase in income level, 1300 small organic farmers