Organic and Fair Trade Coffees from Treehugger Dan's: Good Sense,
Great Price
Our coffees are not just environmentally and socially responsible -
they are also delicious and value priced!
How can we sell exquisite, hand-crafted, fair trade and organic
coffees for the same or lower price than others in Budapest sell
commodity beans or blends? We have no idea - but after your first cup
you'll see that doing well and doing good at the same time has never
been easier.
Made from 100% Arabica, organic, fair trade beans from cooperatives
in Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, it is a sweet and delicate
blend with an intense scent of flower and fruit. This coffee won the gold medal in December 2009 among all Italian coffee roasters, and
currently retails for Ft 6,000/kilo, either as whole beans, or ground to
your specifications. It is also available in single-serving pods usable
in all "free system" coffeemakers.
Kafequo
A blend of 55% Arabica/45% Robusta whole fair trade beans from Peru
and Tanzania. Creamy and packing a nice caffeine punch, this blend is Ft
4,400/kilo.
Teas and Cocoa
In addition to our coffees, we offer a range of organic and fair
trade teas (green, white, herbal, fruit, black, loose and filter) and hot chocolate.
Who drinks
this stuff?
The real question
is, who doesn't? From the office of Hungarian President László
Sólyom to the recently-opened Arriba Taquirea Mexican restaurant, our coffees are
increasingly the choice of those in Hungary who care about the earth and
its people - or who just want a great cup at a great price.
Organic Fair Trade Chocolate
Cocoa farmers normally get 25 cents per pound, if they get
paid at all. Over 40 percent of the world’s conventional chocolate (i.e.
non-organic and non-Fair Trade) comes from the Ivory Coast, where the
International Labor Organization (ILO) and U.S. State Department have reported
widespread instances of child slavery. Exploitation of cacao farmers and farm
workers is the norm in the chocolate industry. Fair Trade cocoa farmers get a minimum
of 89 cents per pound plus premiums, providing much needed credit to farmers
which can then be reinvested in the community – as an example, high school enrollment for farming families supplying Green
& Blacks Organic Chocolate has gone from 10% to 70%.Buy
something made with hope and love, and help small farmers in the Third World break out of the cycle of poverty.
Where does the chocolate you stock come from?
Cocoa butter and mass comes from Bolivia,
the Philippines, Ghana,
Paraguay, Costa
Rica... depending on the chocolate, plus other
Fair Trade and/or organic ingredients from elsewhere. For example, our Mascao
Rice Milk Chocolate has organic and/or Fair Trade vanilla from India,
cane sugar from Paraguay
and cocoa butter and mass from Bolivia.
What other organic Fair Trade products do you stock?
Chocolates, coffees, teas, cocoa, hot chocolate, spices,
herbs, sugar, honey, Lush Fair Trade cosmetics and massage bars, energy drinks
and some handicrafts.
What is "fair trade" and "organic," anyway?
Fair Trade generally means trading partnerships based on reciprocal
benefits and mutual respect. This means that the prices paid to
producers - especially small farmers - reflect the work they do; that
workers have the right to organize; and that national health and safety
regulations are enforced. We also believe it means providing equal
employment opportunities for all people, particularly the most
disadvantaged, being "transparent" and accountable to the public, and
providing appropriate financial and technical assistance to producers
whenever possible. To become fair trade certified, an importer must meet
stringent international criteria, including paying a minimum price of
$1.26 per pound for coffee (as opposed to the usual 50 cents or less).
As a result, coffee growers can invest in health care, education, and
their local environment. It also means knowing who grows the coffee you
drink. In our case, we are getting our "morning cup" from producers like
the Coffee Farmers Group Expocafé S.A., a public-private joint venture
based in Bogotá, Colombia that wholesales beans from smaller
cooperatives throughout the country.
"Organic" has come to mean different things to different people. But
for us, it means agriculture that not involve the use of artificial
pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, genetically modified
organisms (GMOs), antibiotics, irradiation or such potentially harmful
"inputs" like sewage slurry. In other words, food, coffee and other
things made in a way that, if you saw them being made, you'd still want
to eat or drink them.
We
wholesale, too.
Own a café or
restaurant? Join the growing number of local
restaurateurs who have discovered how organic and fair trade coffee are
not only price competitive with other quality coffees, but can offer a
unique selling point. Qualified NGOs can also get Treehugger Dan's
organic coffee at wholesale prices.
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