Jade and Nicola Visit Black Mamba

Angus Coull • September 27, 2024

After attending the WFTO International Fair Trade Summit in Capetown, Jade and Nicola were lucky enough to get to go visit one of our producer groups, Black Mamba. If you haven't tried their delicious chilli products yet, head right over to our online shop and invest in some serious taste. Above is Nicola and Jade with Black Mamba Founder, Claudia. Now over to Nicola to tell the story in her own words...

We visited Black Mamba today and had the pleasure of being shown around Guba which is a permaculture education centre in Malkerns. It was great to see the fruits we see in our products on the trees and learn more about how this community project works.The images above show: Left; one of the classrooms. 2nd from left; papaya tree. 3rd from left and on the right; mango trees. The mangos have been harvested already, but here you can see baby mangos starting to grow for the next harvest - so cute!

We then went to the Black Mamba factory for a tour and met some of the wonderful staff. Below you can see some of the cooks. In the first pic there are 12 pots ready for the next batch of peri peri sauce.

Claudia then took us to a beautiful spot called Malendelas for lunch which is a little artisan village with a guest house, event space, shopping village, restaurant. It had a little Black Mamba shop where Claudia got us to do some tastings. The Chilli Crunch here was surprisingly good, even to me who doesn’t like heat.

By the way it was 34 degrees here today and tomorrow has to be 37 degrees 😢

We’re struggling with the heat as you can imagine.

Below is us contemplating and thinking about if there’s a way we can work together more.

What a great visit. Thanks Claudia and the team.

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