KWS High School Library
Suggested Donation $5

Bill Wiedmann is co-owner of Kestrel Growth Brands, Inc. which markets branded high-end natural foods and ingredients to customers around the world.  Bill will discuss the fair trade model that he and his co-founder developed to allow farmers to share the profit generated by the final sale of their products. He will illustrate how this method results in a cooperative rather than an adversarial producer/supplier relationship that is completely sustainable because it benefits all the parties involved. Bill will share photos and stories from his trips to the vanilla producing regions of Papua, New Guinea and will discuss the cultivation and curing process for vanilla along with some of the fascinating history of how it has changed from a food reserved for royalty to the universal flavor it is today. After the talk you will never consider vanilla to be “plain” again!

To register, please go here: https://kimbertonws.ejoinme.org/MyPages/BeyondFairTradewithBillWiedmann/tabid/191064/Default.aspx