New Cafe Femenino origin
[Coffee and Conservation] Cafe Femenino Mexico is a medium bodied coffee with a bright, nutty flavor and subtle sweetness that is enhanced by a delicate medium roast. We know that you will enjoy this unique coffee for its great taste as well as for the special story that underlies its production."
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[Cafeavion.com] ORGANIC COFFEE ROASTER | Certified 100% Organic Coffees | Fair ...: Avion coffee. Simply browse our online menu and call us toll-free at 1-877-432-7890 or place an order over our secure shopping cart.
[Stylehive.com] Stylehive - jydesign Post 5 "'Cafe Femenino' Peru 'Penachi' Coffee ...: "Cafe Femenino is grown, harvested and processed by an all-women co-op of 464 women farmers." This coffee hits all the sweet spots: organic, free trade, and has a great story - not to mention taste.
[Provocations] Cafe Femenino: Fair Trade coffee grown by women... : So, I went ahead and ordered my 5lbs of Cafe Femenino and, in the process, discovered that my chosen coffee was made exclusively by women (hence the Femenino). This appeals to me for many reasons, not the least of which is the similarity to those stories of the best cigars being hand-rolled by Cuban/Guatemalan/Honduran women on their -
[Coffeebythirty.com] Coffee By Thirty: The Hummingbird Coffee House blew through the weekend’s stock of cold cups in a single day, prompting me to return home to fetch additional supply.
[No Ordinary Princess] Thanks, Pam!: Well, if Nurse Pam's in trouble for absconding with Les Beans Coffe's trademark bean, then I'm guilty also. Just trying to do you a good turn, Desiree and Patti.
[green LA girl] Cause-specific coffee: wine is an everyday thing there-like coffee here-(but your average cheap bottle of cheap wine in Europe is much better than your average cheap can of coffee here.) the specialty coffee industry needs to grow and take over the coffee industry as a whole-not so everyone is forced to pay $15 for a 12 oz. bag of beans-but rather everyone has an opportunity to buy affordable sustainable coffee.
[Opinionated Lesbian] Supporting the right economy: The new hip leftie thing is caring about the environmental evil of transporting goods around the world. Lotsa planes and trucks belching aero-nasties. The solution is eating only that which is produced within a 100-mile radius. I'm not sure how we're going to equalize power and capital on this planet without trade. Local production is good, but
[Coffee and Conservation] Review: Cafe Femenino (Peru): The Cafe Femenino Coffee Project is run entirely by women, who oversee all aspects of the coffee farming as well as marketing and sales, in an area of the world where there are few leadership roles for women and where oppression and abuse are shockingly high. The project empowers women, and they also receive an additional two cents per pound over the Fair Trade price for their beans.
the f-word - Blog: Since the coffee income is greaterwith the Cafe Femenino fair-trade program--the women make about 17 cents moreper pound, or about 30 percent more than the average coffee farmer--itbenefits the whole family, a persuasive argument for the husbands to cede landto their wives.
[feminist blogs] Sunday reading: An unreconstructed Stalinist, with a Hemingway bandana and jeans that belonged to another age, I tried to give him apoplexy by writing an essay asserting that Marx was an anarchist, but didn't succeeed - he just marked it down. (I tend to still believe Marx was an anarchist, actually, although the fact that he was a politician who often wrote for the moment means you can find almost anything you want in his theoretical positions...) But on that lecturer, I'm sure this would have given him the shakes:
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Posted at August 11, 2006 12:58 AM
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