Posted in Fair Trade, New Coffee, Organic, tagged Organic, Fair Trade, New Coffee, el salvador, el salvador flag, el jabali, wild boar on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Remember when Mom used to tell you “your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Boy, is that ever the way I feel right now. But I still can’t get enough!
This time we’ve added a superb new Central American. Direct from the nation of El Salvador, we have just added the coveted “El Jabali”, a Certified [...]
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Quick note… the Local Coffee of the Week is Guatemala Organic Maya Ixil; read about the coffee at this link. Scroll through last week’s blog postings if you missed how this works. This is a certified Fair Trade coffee, and is the best deal in the Triangle at $9 a pound. Please place orders by [...]
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I stumbled on Dan Anderson’s blog today, happily. His post today on organic, the title of which I’ve stolen shamelessly, provides some interesting insights into the “big organic” debate, and highlights the complexity of the discussion around certified foods that I mentioned in my post yesterday on Fair Trade. Since you can go [...]
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It’s certainly not simple, is one observation I’ve made. Sure conceptually it is - make sure producers are paid a fair price (e.g., above the cost of production) for the product. What sympathetic human being could argue with that? Certainly not me. But in practice?
Over the past few days, and for the next couple coming [...]
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