About Us
Living Earth Pty. Ltd. (now trading as Loving Earth), is a Melbourne based company dedicated to sourcing the highest quality organic and wildcrafted functional foods from around the world. We have established long term relationships with several indigenous cooperatives in Central and South America and Australasia helping them add as much value as possible to their raw products at the point of origin. We are now also helping these groups market the products in the North American, European and Australasian markets.
Our vision is to be able to take the manufacturing of the products we develop back to the indigenous communities, who grow and process the raw materials. As part of realizing this vision we currently have 3 projects we are supporting:
1) Developing ways of value adding Gubinge harvested by the IHA in Broome into shelf stable formats that retain the nutrients of the fresh product.
2) Procuring and installing a cacao press for the Mayan network of organic organizations in Xoconusco, Mexico so that they can cold press cacao licor into powder and butter.
3) Procuring and installing a larger cacao press for the cacao growers cooperative in Satipo Peru so that they can increase their output capacity and take more growers into the cooperative.
Scott Fry the founding director of Living Earth Pty. Ltd. spent 11 years doing community development work in countries like India and Mexico. In Mexico he worked with various indigenous organic grower associations. In particular he worked with a Mayan Indigenous grower association in Chiapas, Mexico where he was introduced to the magical qualities of the Royal Cacao of Soconusco and to several Enviromental Visionaries who are championing the Organic movement in Mexico. After experiencing the exceptional health benefits of consuming raw cacao, he began discovering some of the other traditional foods of mexico and latin america that have unique and powerful nutritional qualities.
The purpose of Living Earth Pty. Ltd. is to make these foods available to you in a way that honors both the Indigenous people that have cultivated them for thousands of years and the earth and ecosystems in which they are grown. We have also been developing a range of raw chocolate products in our commercial kitchen here in Melbourne. We are currently working on other product ranges that meet all of our healthy sustainable fair principles that form the foundation of all our Loving Earth products.