Denmark: a new destination for Baobab

It seems that Boabab really resonates with the Danish!  At the recent BIOFACH expo in Germany we met up with Jette Jacobsen owner of PURE DAY, a distributor of natural & organic products in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jette has recently joined forces with us and runs the Danish Facebook page for EcoProducts.

And in February we met up with Kenneth Jorgensen and his wife Tanya who visited us here in the Limpopo in February.  They are also from Denmark where Kenneth owns and runs a company called Mzungu.  Mzungu markets baobab powder as a foodie ingredient.  They have a lovely website  where they have featured an article on one of our harvesters Livhuwani.  Here she is in this photo with them:

IMG_2326 Kenneth and Tanya Jorgensen 600 x 747

 

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