Just Coffee

Just Coffee in conjunction with Terra Experience and Escape Java Joint is premiering the new documentary Voice of a Mountain featuring the Santa Anita grower cooperative in Guatemala. The movie looks at the difficult path for this community from being guerillas in the Guatemalan civil war to organic farmers. There will be a presentation after the film by a member of the Santa Anita community.
Join us at Escape Java Joint on Saturday the 26th of July at 7p.m.

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Indigo Coffee and Tea in Verona will be celebrating Fair Trade Day with fun and educational events all day! Stop by any time to see their lovely space complete with Just Coffee, well crafted fair trade gifts, plenty of space for children to play and lovely art on the walls. Mike Miller and Colleen Coy will be available from 12-3pm to discuss Just Coffee, fair trade, and JC's adventurous delegations where we take people like you to visit the coffee producers we work with around the world. We hope to see you at Indigo Cofffee and Tea this Fair Trade Day!

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This Fair Trade Day you can find Jintzy, producer from La Fem cooperative in Nicaragua, together with Mike Miller and Colleen Coy of Just Coffee at Cafe Soleil from 8-11am during the large Farmers Market on the Capital Square. We hope that you will enjoy some of the best of what Madison has to offer by stopping by and visiting Cafe Soleil for an exquisite cup of coffee as well as the unique opportunity to meet one of the valued producers of the coffee we sell.

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On Wednesday May 7th from 6-8pm Mike Miller and Colleen Coy will be speaking about Just Coffee, fair trade, and JC's exciting travel delegations at the Washington Hotel Coffee Room. Please join us for a lively discussion, intriguing photos, and a cup of coffee or tea. We hope to see you there!

Washington Hotel Coffee Room: 608-441-7599.

One Cup is a short documentary filmed in Timor-Leste in January 2006 by Scarab Studio & Mutiny Media of Australia. This film attempts to offer insight into the struggles of coffee farmers in one of the poorest countries in the world. José Ramos-Horta, then Prime Minister and now President of Timor-Leste, and Keryn Clark, OXFAM Program Director, are interviewed in the film.

One Cup illustrates the positive benefits of fair trade while giving the viewer a glimpse into the challenges of coffee farmers in this lovely island nation. Unfortunately, the 29 minute long film does not delve into the actual reality of the fair trade system in Timor-Leste. Instead, One Cup chooses to focus an ideal fair trade system that so many of us hope to support while consuming products with that sweet little seal of certification that is supposed to guarantee us a product that is 'fair' to the farmer who grew it. The film is so generous to the current system of fair trade in Timor-Leste that at some points I even began to wonder who was actually behind its production. Although in my opinion One Cup does nothing to actually research or investigate the reality of fair trade in Timor-Leste, which is not nearly as nice as it may appear on the surface and from a distance, it is a lovely reminder of the ever increasing need for change in the way that we consume and trade across the globe.

How sad that now more than ever fair trade is becoming just more business as usual.

This page has been on our site for some time, but we thought it would be good to update it and put it back up front-- especially in light of the excellent discussion going on on our "Map of Our Supply Chain" story.

Our adherence to international Fair Trade standards is audited by our organic certifier Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA). However, to keep you all totally in the loop, we post all of our contracts, organic certifications, etc. on our importing co-op's (Cooperative Coffees) website for you to peruse.

Please feel free to check them out here.

There are 4 types of documents featured in this section: Contracts (CON), Invoices (INV), Bills of Lading (BOL), and Organic Certifications (ORG). These can be a little confusing, so here is a brief run-down of what they are all about.

On Saturday November 8th Fundasaun Hari'i Au Metan set up our booth of environmentally friendly products at the Alola Foundation Christmas Fair. The Timorese members of our NGO set up, took down, and worked to sell our anti-global warming line of furniture made from sustainably harvested bamboo and rattan, hand woven palm baskets, bags and hats, locally harvested, processed and roasted Laclubar coffee, and much more!

Fundasaun Hari'i Au Metan received 1st prize at the ASEAN Trade Expo last weekend, December 1st and 2nd!

Last weekend, December 1st and 2nd, was the 1st annual ASEAN Trade Expo here in Dili, Timor-Leste. It was a wonderful event! Many groups and organizations from all over the country came to Dili to display and sell their local products, crafts, and services to both the local and international community of Timor-Leste. The local NGO that supports the Gardeners of Eden East Timor Seed Project, Fundasaun Hari'i Au Metan (“Foundation of the Black Bamboo,” a species of black bamboo native to Timor-Leste), built an awesome booth from locally harvested and treated bamboo and then filled it with a variety of products from groups we work with all over the country!

Posters are 11x17 and suitable for printing.... Made by Mr. Moon, graphic design ninja.

Please feel free to use them as you will for edu-ma-cational purposes. We will update in the near future to replace the graphic explaining "where the money goes" to reflect our 12oz. bags.
Thanks!