• Facebook
  • Twitter
Viewing entries tagged organic Subscribe to feed

One Man Pioneering Fair-Trade Organic Frankincense Industry

by Baron Mojohito
Baron Mojohito
We are at Shady Creek for the Life Force Formula Retreat. It is going to be spec
User is currently offline
on Monday, 12 September 2011
MC Blog

Somali Immigrant Revolutionizing Frankincense Industry with Fair Wages for Harvesters

Frankincense has been widely regarded as one of the world's most precious sacred scents.  Brokers purchase the resin in massive quantities and auction with large markups while the land-owners earn a fraction of the value of the substance, while the harvesters are paid only in food.  The trees must be scarified to express the resin, and as international demand rises, the trees are dramatically over harvested, threatening their fragile existence.




Latest Blogs