For the Love of Coffee
Posted in coffee beans on Jan 9th, 2010
Two Northern Michigan University (NMU) students – Lisa McCarthy of Greenville, WI and Sarah Swanson of Rapid River, MI – are giving presentations across the Upper Peninsula on their recent Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about fair trade. This is the first of several excerpts [...]
Posted in specialty coffee on Dec 1st, 2009
Second half of Sustainable Harvest Relationship Coffee Case Study. Sustainable Harvest is a for-profit coffee importer business with a strong social mission to provide sustainable, lasting markets for coffee farmers around the world. As one of the largest fair trade coffee importers in the world, the price Sustainable Harvest pays growers is always well above [...]
Posted in specialty coffee on Nov 19th, 2009
Sustainable Harvest is a green specialty coffee importer with a unique mission to link small holder growers to better paying markets using a concept it created called “Relationship Coffee.” As one of the largest fair trade coffee importers in the world, the price Sustainable Harvest pays growers is always well above the world commodity prices [...]