What is Organic, Fair Trade Coffee?

Organic coffee is coffee grown in such a way as to ensure a sustainable agricultural system promoting natural processes and growth, rather than introducing chemical pesticides, herbicides and synthetic fertilizers.

"Fair Trade" coffee means green coffee beans are acquired via a socially-and environmentally-committed not-for-profit organization, which pays the growers a guaranteed minimum amount per pound, no matter what the commodity price of coffee may be.

Traditionally, coffee has been traded as a commodity (like oil, etc) with many middlemen-- exporters, brokers, traders etc-- reducing the share of revenue the farmer received.  Those who worked the hardest to produce the best quality coffee beans for roasting often suffered the greatest inequities.

"Fair Trade", by paying a guaranteed minimum price per pound directly to the farmers, provides security and stability they would otherwise not have.  This additional revenue enables small, family farmers to establish cooperatives which facilitate education, health care, environmental stewardship etc.

 
  Café La Semeuse introduces its first certified organically grown coffee for the socially conscious coffee drinker.

With SOLEIL LEVANT (it means .Sunrise.), the .never bitter. taste of La Semeuse, is now available for those coffee lovers to enjoy to whom social and environmental responsibility are imperative.
 
 
 
 
 
Item Number

L9360 whole bean
Net weight
250 grams / 8.8 oz.
Price $10.00

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Soleil Levant is a smooth blend of 100% Arabica beans, certified organically grown from Colombia, Peru and Indonesia.

It is fair-trade certified by The Max Havelaar Foundation, the orginator of the fair trade movement.

 

 
 




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