Earth and Body Friendly

Here’s part 2 of the interview with Marcus from XOCOCO, where we talk about organic food and discuss in more detail how fair trade works.
If you’re in the area, make sure you go and sample Marcus’s amazing organic and fair trade coffees and hot chocolates.  If not, then visit the XOCOCO website (and make sure [...]

I had the pleasure of interviewing Marcus, proprietor of XOCOCO (pronounced sho-co-co, or kiss-hug-co-co) and maker of the best hot chocolate I’ve ever tasted. He makes his awesome organic coffees and hot chocolates from fair trade coffee and cocoa beans.
He runs his stall at the markets on Blamey Street at Kelvin Grove, an inner city [...]

Have you ever heard of ‘food miles’? It’s about how far food travels to get from where its grown to our tables. Much, if not all, of the food available in big chain supermarkets is grown a long, long way away from where we buy it. It travels across the country and across the world [...]