Posts Tagged "Café"
Pt. 2 – Fair Trade Coffee – Cafe Femenino Womens Coffee Co-op
Part two of Cafe Femenino – Worth Celebrating. Guelphs Planet Bean Coffee imports and roasts Café Femenino which is sold throughout southern Ontario by cafés and retailers. The coffee is also supplied free to local womens shelters through Women In Crisis (WIC). This is remarkable since these Peruvian women would normally be passive and marginalized by the men around them commented Bill Barrett of Planet Bean Coffee. They live in isolated homes, cook over open fires, carry their water, look after children, work their farms and are under the control of their husbands.
Read MoreAlltech Café Citadelle – Fair-Trade Coffee from Haiti for Haiti
Alltech’s brand of fair-trade Haitian Coffee (www.alltech.com is part of the Alltech Sustainable Haiti Project (www.alltech.com Finding a way to support existing Haitian enterprise was top of mind when we first visited the country. We believed that buying fair-trade Haitian coffee was one of the best ways that we could have an immediate impact. We decided to launch our own brand of Haitian coffee and to incorporate this coffee into existing Alltech products. After several trips to Haiti, we found the perfect partner: Cacgava is a 900 member coffee co-op located in Dondon, a small village in the mountains in northern Haiti. It is Haiti’s oldest coffee co-op and is fair-trade certified by FLO-CERT, an independent International Certification company. The coffee’s name was derived from the Citadelle Laferrière, the largest fortress in the Americas, next to which Cacgava and its member farms are located. Alltech Café Citadelle is a high quality, mild, mountain-grown Arabica. It is naturally shade-grown and is fair-trade. www.alltech.com
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