{"id":22426,"date":"2022-10-28T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/podcast\/what-the-field-episode-12-farmer-kims-sweet-and-bitter-tale-of-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:33:54","slug":"what-the-field-episode-12-farmer-kims-sweet-and-bitter-tale-of-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/laruchequiditoui.fr\/what-the-field\/podcast\/what-the-field-episode-12-farmer-kims-sweet-and-bitter-tale-of-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Kim&#8217;s sweet and bitter tale of chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Russell can almost be described as a modern-day Robin Hood. A restless Englishman who revived an old cocoa estate on the Caribbean island of Grenada and gave the land to the people. Who rants about &#8220;the corporates&#8221; and doesn&#8217;t want his business to grow too much. Who bases his decisions on which production materials to use on the social impact it will have on the locals because \u201cworldwide the cocoa situation is desperate for the farmers that grow it.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What The Field?! Episode 12 - Farmer Kim\u2019s sweet &amp; bitter tale of chocolate\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_X7AyvWvao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim is a farmer and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/en\/farmer\/crayfish-bay-organics\/up\/kakaobaum-patenschaft-crayfish-bay-organics\/overharvest\">Crayfish Bay Organics<\/a> and together with his wife Lylette he produces chocolate in its purest form. His conviction is that \u201cIf you cut out the greed, you end up with quality\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tells us his story and explains some cocoa-related facts such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is tree-to-bar and why can it change people&#8217;s lives?<\/li><li>What does child slavery have to do with your chocolate bar?<\/li><li>Why is there such a big difference in the taste of the same type of chocolate?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in to learn more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can download the episodes of our podcast in audio format on all of the usual streaming platforms (Spotify, ApplePodcasts, you name it) or <a href=\"https:\/\/whatthefield.buzzsprout.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfarming.com\/en\/farmer\/crayfish-bay-organics\/up\/kakaobaum-patenschaft-crayfish-bay-organics\/overharvest\" style=\"background-color:#5d9e9b\">Discover Kim\u2019s chocolate project here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":22427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-22426","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farmer Kim&#039;s sweet and bitter tale of chocolate - WTF<\/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:\/\/crowdfarming.com\/es\/what-the-field\/podcast\/what-the-field-episode-12-farmer-kims-sweet-and-bitter-tale-of-chocolate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmer Kim&#039;s sweet and bitter tale of chocolate - WTF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kim Russell can almost be described as a modern-day Robin Hood. 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