Peace Coffee: A Socially Aware Coffee Company
What do small coffee growers in Columbia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Sumatra have in common? Growers in these countries, many of whom use organic methods, are suppliers of coffee beans to Peace Coffee.
Peace Coffee is a socially aware coffee company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This company believes in fair trade and runs its own business that way. Fair trade coffee is coffee that is grown and sold through cooperatives, without a middle man. There are no large corporations involved. The relationship Peace Coffee builds is with the farmers and their coops, not a faceless corporation that literally stands on the backs of these individual farmers, taking more than the corporation’s fair share of the sales price while wearing out the earth and its environment at the same time.
Coffee with a conscience
John Denver sang “It’s about time we begin it, to turn the world around” and that’s what Peace Coffee is doing. They not only believe in sustainability, they practice it. They believe that by being fair to their growers, the growers will flourish, along with their families and countries, the coffee will be better, more people will buy their coffee and all will prosper.
All of their coffee is shade grown and organic. Shade grown coffee comes from coffee plants that are grown under a canopy of trees. Few chemicals are used, there is more sustainability and bird habitat is preserved. Supporting the fair trade philosophy supports the earth and does, indeed, start to turn the world around.
Peace Coffee extends this philosophy to their own marketing and sales efforts. Imagine a coffee company that delivers its coffee using bicycles. In Minneapolis, that’s Peace Coffee.
Where can you find this fair trade coffee? In the Twin Cities area, in a variety of places – some unexpected. You can find Peace coffee in delis, food coops, restaurants and on the campus of the College of St. Catherine and several bike shops.
Fair trade coffee is available in almost every state and the list is growing. If Peace Coffee is not in a location nearby, you can order it directly from this socially aware coffee company at their website www.peacecoffee.com.
If you want coffee that is grown, traded, and roasted in an environmentally and socially responsible manner, the coffee that Peace Coffee offers is for you. Fairly priced and fairly traded, it’s a cup of coffee that not only tastes good, it supports the concepts of global sustainability and fairness for all.
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