new fair trade organic chocolates

I'm pretty excited about this. Our friends at Equal Exchange, a fellow worker owned cooperative, have launched two new chocolate bars that I'm sure you or someone you know will soon fall in love with.

The first combines three amazing concepts: organic fair trade

chocolate, caramel and sea salt. The crunchiness of the caramel and salt give the bar body, while the creamy chocolate forms a pool of love in your mouth. Seriously. LOVE. Even the salt comes from a cool salt marsh producers co-op in France!

The second new bar embodies the mission of Just Local Food fairly well. Of course not everything we eat is LOCAL. It could be, but it isn't. We do, however, crave the knowledge and wisdom of where our food comes from - that's the heart. And your heart will love this single origin 65% chocolate that comes from farmer cooperatives in Ecuador. Fair trade to your soul.

2010 Coffee Crops are HERE!!!

Coffee Lovers!

Have you enjoyed the year's new coffee arrival from our two great suppliers? Farmer to Farmer and Just Coffee are buzzing with excitement as various new crops have arrived to Wisconsin bringing that extra GUSTO to your morning, afternoon (or evening?) routine!

New From Just Coffee are The AIPEP light roast from Pumiri, Bolivia and another great light roast from the Oromia Grower Co-Op in Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe Region. 


Each Bag of Farmer to Farmer Guatemalan and Honduran Coffees are now coming from the amazing farmers we were able to visit this past January. All our Guatemalan Coffee is now coming from Huehuetenango's women's Co-Op! Also, all Honduran coffee is coming from small villages in La Montaña de Comayagua where producers continue to develop a web of eco-tourism and sustainable development. 


www.justcoffee.coop
www.farmertofarmer.org

New Video from our visit to the coffee cooperative and farm in Guatemala click here to watch the video of our trip visiting the coffee cooperative and farmers.
To watch a great video about where our Guatemalan coffee is coming from. The Huehuetenango coffee farmers and their cooperative.
Check out an Eau Claire Leader Telegram article on Farmer to Farmer.
Also Dunn County News article about Farmer to Farmer..

fair trade SALE

We are proud to sell products from Equal Exchange, they help us keep the JUST in just local food. As in justice, for the farmers and workers that bring us tea & chocolates from around the world. To celebrate this relationship, and highlight our commitment at Just Local Food to global organic and fair trade practices, we're offering their full line of products at 20% off this month. Chocolate bars that were fairly priced at $3.99 are now only $3.19. Stock up and save!

"Fair Trade requires farmers to organize themselves democratically and to promote participation and transparency. At Equal Exchange, we hold ourselves, as U.S. business people, to those same principles." - Lynsey Miller, Worker-owner since 4-7-03

* Please use this sale as an opportunity to try their amazing "pyramid teas" in the square boxes, you won't regret it!

Divine Chocolate is here! (happy valentine's day!)

Chocolate Addicts! Three (3) new varieties of African Chocolate are now at your local Co-op, each carefully selected for pure valentine's (or everyday) pleasure (and vitamins?!)... click here for the divine chocolate 'story'

Divine White Chocolate With Strawberries- $3.99
Divine Dark Chocolate with 70% Cocoa- $1.99
Divine Milk Chocolate- $1.99

Coffee Farming in Guate!

enjoy this fantastic youtube video (and more photos!) about our Guatemalan coffee farmers. Alexander Nixon is a PeaceCorps volunteer working with these farmers, let us know if you have any questions about the process or for these amazing folks!

We're in Guatemala!

our first photos from HONDURAS!

please join us this Saturday 10am-??? at your source for fair trade and simply unbelievable coffee for a tasting with our friends from Just Coffee in Madison. 

until then!

equipo cafeinado, Drew y Zacarias

www.justcoffee.coop

Fun for Trick-or-Treaters at Just Local

We are overjoyed to be offering fair trade & organic chocolate for our customer's Trick-or-Treating needs this Halloween. These mini chocolate bars are the same size as the mini-chocolate bars children are accustomed to receiving. We are also proud to offer families a novel experience during your Halloween expeditions by giving away "Reverse-Trick-Or-Treating" kits FOR FREE. A pleasant surprise will greet nearly a quarter million people distributing candy at their door, when youth reverse the Halloween tradition to hand adults a sample of vegan-friendly, Fair Trade dark chocolate. Your children can join hundreds of groups of Trick-or-Treaters in North America as they

• END poverty among cocoa farmers,
  
• END forced/abusive child labor in the cocoa industry,
  
• PROMOTE Fair Trade, and
  
• PROTECT the environment

The chocolate comes with a card informing recipients of poverty and child labor problems in the cocoa industry, affecting mainstream candy enjoyed at Halloween and around the year, and how Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.

Parents of last year’s youngest participants raved about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transformed Halloween into a meaningful event when youthful activists can give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities. To learn more about Reverse-Trick-or Treating click on this site: www.equalexchange.coop/reverse-sign-up/ or this site: www.ReverseTrickOrTreat.org.