Our Story began with a stolen pot and a giant wooden spoon. It was Morula/Marula Season and the fruit was decomposing EVERYWHERE. Our community viewed the fruit as a nuisance that attracted baboons (they love the fruit) and it was incredibly underutilised. That inspired us to make our very first Marula Jam for our very first Farmer’s Market.

We “liberated” a pot and spoon from our co-founder’s father and began our journey of discovery. It was on this journey that we learnt that it takes approximately 300 tonnes of Marula fruit pulp to get 12 tonnes of Marula cosmetic seed oil. With no major user of the fruit by-product in Botswana we asked ourselves, “What happens to all that fruit?”

It takes approximately 300 ton of Marula fruit to get 12 ton of cosmetic marula oil. There is no major user of the Morula (pronounced Marula in Botswana) fruit pulp while the oil is a valuable global commodity. So, we asked ourselves, what happens to all that unloved fruit?

Maungo Craft forms partnerships a unique value chain with indigenous oil manufacturers and with small holder farmers. In that way we help to create jobs for the most vulnerable communities at the base of the pyramid, particularly women in rural communities. Maungo Craft save the unloved fruit and vegetables while the cosmetic oil processors use the oil.

Maungo Craft has won thirteen (13) local and International Awards for the unique, reduced sugar jams, syrups, and hot sauce for being a delicious solution. Put an end to boring meals and bland wings with our Roasted Chillie, Garlic and Marula Hot Sauce!

Maungo Craft – Culture in a Bottle!