Expeller Pressed
Grapeseed Oil
Green Farming plus Green Processing “Double
Green”
Organic Coconut Oil & Soap
On the slopes of an old inactive volcano on one of the 345 beautiful islands in Fiji, with tropical plants everywhere and a great view of the sea, careful waste avoidance, use of renewable fuel and a green operations have long been the rule.
GREEN PROCESSING: Coconut husks and shells and old coconut trees fuel the boiler….that produces the steam…. that runs the steam engine…. that drives the generator…. that provides power for the coconut oil press, machinery and lights for the factory and worker’s homes. Large quantities of diesel fuel would have had to be burnt to substitute.
In 1961 the owner of the coconut plantation where our oil is produced, had a steam engine made to drawings and design of a steam engine which had been first built in 1895. This steam engine is used to drive the electric generator to produce power to run the oil press and other machinery and to provide light to the house and workers houses. The fuel they use is some of the old coconut trees and all the coconut husks and shells from the coconuts that are opened for copra (copra is the meat or kernel of the coconut dried in warm air, then crushed in the press for its oil). This was done to reduce the consumption of diesel fuel in the diesel engine they had previously used to run the generator.
The old unproductive trees (often 70 years old and 80 ft high) are replaced in a cycle of 30 acres at a time (of the 1100 acre plantation) with new trees and coconuts growing again and taking up carbon dioxide from the air. The carbon is recycled.
GREEN FARMING: Five years ago the plantation was certified organic to USDA. Organic farming is green farming as there are no petroleum based fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides used. The owner is 80 now and his two sons do much of the work on the plantation today and continue the pattern and cycles of green technology.
Choose DOUBLE GREEN This same coconut oil is used in the Natures Approved® organic soap produced on Fiji so we have the major component, the organic coconut oil in the soap, produced with green methods.
You can choose "double green" Natures Approved® extra
virgin organic coconut oil and organic soap from Assured Organics and help
expand their operation and reward their efforts.
Assured Organics
17 Hillcrest View, Hartsdale, New York
USA, 10530
914-428-6800
ken@assuredorganics.com