Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at another one of Reunion Island’s coffees, the Ethiopia Oromia fair trade organic coffee.
This coffee is listed as a medium body and the beans are not over roasted or oily. They are a light brown nut color with a pleasant aroma.
The coffee was quite a surprise. The aroma [...]

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Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at another one of Reunion Island’s coffees, the Privateer Dark fair trade organic coffee. When I opened the package, I first noticed a nice dark aroma, but also that some of the beans seemed overroasted…

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Ian on December 1st, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at Mystic Monk’s Midnight Vigils Blend fair trade organic coffee…

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Ian on November 17th, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at Shock Coffee’s fair trade organic blend coffee.
If you are dragging your butt out of bed and need a real kick start, try some Shock fair trade organic blend! This blend contains almost double the caffeine as a regular cup of coffee. They also carry an Energy blend [...]

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Ian on October 20th, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at William Spartivento Kona Blend fair trade coffee. This is not a Kona coffee, but a blend with South American fair trade beans done to a full city roast.
Rich and creamy! There are mornings when you need a thick, rich, creamy coffee, well this coffee can certainly fill [...]

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Ian on September 29th, 2009

For those of you looking for a real life account of how the fair trade coffee process works and affects people, here is a brief story about fair trade in action.
In the coffee growing mountains of Columbia, there is a co-op of 270 farming families called APCO (Asociación Pequeños Caficultores de Ocamonte) that was formed [...]

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Ian on September 28th, 2009

Organic coffee is coffee grown primarily without the use of pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilizers. Packages will display one of several logos depending on where they are packaged. To the left are the logos for Canada and the U.S.
Fair trade coffee producers are required to farm with sustainable farming techniques. The rules are intended [...]

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Ian on September 20th, 2009

My wife was strolling through Costco many months ago (not sure it may even be a year or so ago) and as she always does, stops at each sampling presentation. This one time, William Spartivento had a booth set up and she tried a sample of their organic fair trade espresso (they do offer several [...]

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