Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Equal Exchange Brings Fair Trade To Small-Scale Tea Growers


Equal Exchange Brings Fair Trade To Small-Scale Tea Growers
Forbes - Equal Exchange hopes to replicate the success they had promoting specialty coffee from small-farmer co-operatives in the 1980s and 90s. Currently both tea connoisseurs and traders are unaware of the role of small-scale farms and co-operatives in ...

Green Mountain Coffee Shares Rise
MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters rose Monday after the coffee maker said supermarket chain Pathmark Stores Inc. would begin selling the companys beans in some of its stores. Shares soared $5.95, or 6.5 percent, to $97.99. The ...

Farm Chores - Things to do on a Kona Farm
Before becoming a Kona coffee farmer, I made a living as a computer programmer. I had often considered farming but I had never actually farmed before.

Canlis Rewards Mountain View Starbucks District for Its Fundraising ...
Forbes - Canlis initiated a challenge to Western Washington Starbucks store partners (employees) to financially support the Guatemala Education Initiative--a program directly benefiting the Guatemala coffee-growing region. The Starbucks Mountain View ...

Fudge pie combines coffee and rum flavors
Wilmington Morning Star - Q I have lost the recipe for my friends favorite dessert, Caribbean Fudge Pie. Each time he comes for dinner, he asks if Ive found the recipe, which of course I havent - it has been lost for years. I know it had either unsweetened or semi-sweet ...