This guest post comes from Renee Brown of Weaver’s Coffee & Tea. We met the Weaver’s team at the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) conference in April, and they were incredibly enthusiastic about promoting Fair Trade.  Thank you, Weaver’s, and congrats on your new retail store!
In 2009, when NBC’s “The Today Show” voted our Organic Blend “Best Organic Coffee” in a blind tasting of 100 coffees, it helped show that a small, artisan coffee roaster can be recognized on a national level for creating delicious Certified Organic and Fair …

Our friends at Choice Organic Teas have long been pioneers when it comes to doing good. The company was not only the first American tea company to go exclusively organic, but also the first company to offer Fair Trade Certifiedâ„¢ teas in the United States. Now, they continue this great record by teaming up with the Jane Goodall Institute, which was founded by its namesake, the famed conservationist best known for her studies of chimpanzees. The Jane Goodall Institute has chosen Choice Organic Teas to carry its “Good for All” …

I love to share news about Kuapa Kokoo. That’s because it is truly best-in-class cocoa farmer’s cooperative; its members are part owners of Divine Chocolate. Today we are pleased to share some more exciting news from Kuapa:  Christiana Ohene Agyare has been elected as President of the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers’ Union (KKFU) at the cooperative’s AGM attended by 2,600 delegates in Kumasi, Ghana this month. Ms. Ohene Agyare is the first woman President of the Kuapa Kokoo, which is the major shareholder in Divine Chocolate Inc. She will be heading …