Café Campesino…
Coffee with a conscience = a gift with a conscience!

Besides being 100% Fair Trade, organic and shade grown, all of our coffee is roasted-to-order, which means when you give Café Campesino coffee as a gift, you’re giving some of the best coffee in the United States…inside and out! In addition to our lineup of single varietals, tasty blends and great decafs, we offer gift boxes with different themes…visit our Gift Ideas section on our website for more information.

This holiday season we are introducing: our new 100% organic, sweat-shop-free “Look at the World in a Different Way” T-shirts, a new sporty steel travel mug and for chocolate lovers, Dagoba organic hot chocolate. 

Here are a few other ideas to consider for the holidays…

• Fair Trade, organic teas from Choice Organics
• Bodum French presses, grinders & other coffee accessories
• Beautiful handcrafted Café Campesino mugs
• Putumayo cds and inspiring coffee-themed books

Holiday Fair Trade Coffee 10-Pack 
Save time and money and knock out your Holiday shopping list with the Café Campesino Holiday Fair Trade Coffee 10-Pack, which includes the following in 1-lb foil bags: (2) Colombia Medium, (2) Sumatra Full City; (2) Guatemala Full City, (2) East Timor Dark & (2) Decaf Full City. Please designate whether you want your 10-Pack whole bean or ground for auto-drip (at present, we are only able to offer one or the other for all 10 bags). Follow this link to order.

Another option is giving a Café Campesino Coffee Club Membership as a gift! Have Café Campesino coffee shipped automatically, at intervals you choose (once a month, every six weeks, bimonthly…), to that special someone. Coffee Club members receive a 10% discount off the regular online pricing and you are billed only when a scheduled order ships.

Finally, to help our customers knock out their gift lists in one fell swoop, Café Campesino offers volume discounts on our 1-lb. bags of delicious Café Campesino coffee. Order 10 to 19 Bags and get a 10% discount on your order; 20 to 29 Bags - 20%; and 30 + Bags - 30%.

Once you’re done shopping at Café Campesino, visit threefrontiers.com. By clicking through to threefrontiers.com from this link in Fair Grounds, you will automatically receive 10% off when you order from Three Frontiers Trading.

(Please note that you will be taken out of Café Campesino’s website and redirected to threefrontiers.com. Orders placed on threefrontiers.com will be charged and shipped separately from orders placed on Café Campesino.)

In the November 2004 issue of Fair Grounds, we wrote about conscious consumption and what we at Café Campesino believe is a unique opportunity for all of us to make the world a better place via the purchasing decisions we make every day. While we hope that you find everything that you need for the holiday season in our expanded offering of Fair Trade products, if you don’t, please be sure to check out the many other Fair Trade companies around the country who have made the same 100% commitment to Fair Trade as we here at Café Campesino have made.

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Café Conciencia
A Fair Trade Organic Coffee and Ecotourism Project

Café Conciencia (coffee with a conscience) is dedicated to developing successful small businesses—particularly coffee roasting and ecotourism—that provide alternative sources of income for struggling worker-owned agricultural cooperatives in Guatemala so that they can achieve decent, dignified, and sustainable standards of housing, health, and education.

Help Café Conciencia make good on the promise of Fair Trade by becoming a Founding Annual Sustainer for as little as $25/year. Your contribution will go directly toward the development of roasted coffee and ecotourism projects in Fair Trade producer communities, which ultimately means new sources of income for producers and a new way for supporters of Fair Trade to get more involved with Fair Trade at the grassroots level. 

Café Conciencia Annual Sustainer Levels include:
$1,000 - Plus Social Justice Champion
$500 - Solidarity Builder
$250 - Community Advocate
$100 - Fair Trader
$25 - Coffee Lover

Tax-deductible donations can be made by credit card online at www.cafeconciencia.org or by check via their 501c3 fiscal sponsor, Yemaya, at the following address (please write Café Conciencia in the memo line):

Yemaya, Café Conciencia Fund, 18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

For more information, please visit www.cafeconciencia.org or contact Tim Kantz, the director of Café Conciencia, who is based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Tel: 011-502-5819-2282; Email: tim@cafeconciencia.org.

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Bienestar International manufactures union-made footwear & casual clothing under the brand name No Sweat™. Their gear is produced by independent trade union members in the United States, Canada and the developing world. Our friends at Bienestar believe that the only viable response to globalization is a global labor movement.

No Sweat defines the market for goods that support independent trade unions -- a historically proven solution to sweatshops. They provide a competitive product to you and a living wage to their workers. How? By not advertising. They market direct to consumers, relying primarily on Internet sales for distribution. No Sweat counts on all of us to help them spread the word! 

No Sweat is offering Café Campesino customers a special discount. Just enter coupon code CAMPESINO at check out and get $5.00 off of your order. To shop or learn more about No Sweat, visit www.nosweatshop.com or call 1-877-992-7827.

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-- Babatunde Olatunji

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• November 2005 Gearing Up For the Holiday Season, Café Campesino Community Caravan, Show Your Café Campesino Pride and Win!, Return of the Monarch Butterfly
• October 2005 Hurricane Stan Ravages Our Guatemalan Friends, Report From the Fair Trade Futures Conference, Customer Spotlight: Sobornost for the World Foundation's World Village Fair Trade Market, Fair Trade Partner: Maya Tech Learning Centers
• September 2005 Cooperative Coffees and Producers Meet in Guatamala by Tripp Pomeroy, Café Campesino’s General ManagerSupport OXFAM - Support Fair Trade, Customer Spotlight: Rainbow Natural Grocery, Fair Trade Partner: A Different Approach
• August 2005 Producer Profile: Fondo Paez, Customer Spotlight: Apoteca, Fair Trade Partner: Pachamama, A World of Artisans
• July 2005 Harrar Joins Our Coffee Lineup, Producer Profile: Ethiopia's OCFCU, Fair Trade on the Home Front
• June 2005 Sumatra Update: June 2005 provided by Thomas Fricke, ForesTrade, National Fair Trade Conference, Fair Trade Partner: Three Frontiers Trading Co.
• May 2005 Producer Profile: ACMPASA Santa Anita, Top 10 Ways to Support Fair Trade, Customer Spotlight: Crimson Moon Café, Fair Trade Partner: Fair Trade Resource Network
• April 2005 An Eye-Opening Trip to Guatemala by Bill Harris, Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Coffee Program, Manna Grocery and Deli, La Esmeralda Stove Project
• March 2005 Insights From Our Guatemala Producer Partners by Tripp Pomeroy, Take Us To Your Coffeehouse!, Customer Spotlight: The Sentient Bean, Fair Trade Partner: Mexico Solidarity Network
• February 2005 Meeting Our Guatemala Partners Face to Face, Producer Profile: APECAFORM, Customer Spotlight: Mayflower Coffee Company, Fair Trade Partner: CoffeeTradeJustice.com
• January 2005 Tragedy's Wake: Update From Sumatra, Producer Profile: PPKGO Cooperative
• December 2004 Mexico: Notes From the Field, Customer Spotlight: Ten Thousand Villages, Fair Trade Partner: Cloudforest Initiatives
• November 2004 Conscious Consumption: A Personal Perspective, Customer Spotlight: Oyamel - Cocina Mexicana, Fair Trade Partner: Three Frontiers Trading Co.
• October 2004 A Mission...Not a Market: The 2004 Vote: Making it Work
• September 2004 Producer News: CECOCAFEN in the Off Season, Customer Spotlight: The Healthy Gourmet
• August 2004 Producer Profile: Cooperativa Café Timor, Fair Trade Friends: Marketplace of India
• July 2004 A Fair Trade Reality Check, Fair Trade Friends: Tribal Fiber, Coffee Lab International
• June 2004 The Promise of Fair Trade, Fair Trade Friend: Global Crafts
• May 2004 Fair Trade at the Carter Center, SCAA meeting.
• April 2004 Coffee and Community in Nicaragua, Fair Trade in Americus Makes the News!
• March 2004 Fair Trade chocolate, Rosetta's Kitchen
• February 2004 Bill's Return to Guatemala, Guayakí Rainforest
• January 2004 Espresso - What's the Buzz?
• December 2003 Fair Trade: Global Exchange's Fair Trade Challenge; Fellow Fair Traders: SERRV International
• November 2003 Fair Trade: More Than Just a Fair Price; Fellow Fair Traders: Lucuma Designs
• October 2003 Exploring the Coffee Regions
• September 2003 Cooperative Coffees Annual Meeting
• August 2003 Fair Trade Friends: Oxfam America; The Art (and Science) of Roasting Coffee
• July 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Sumatra
• June 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Guatemala; Gayo Mountain Adventure; Dr. Coffee - Cupping
• May 2003 Fair Trade Friends: United Students for Fair Trade; World Fair Trade Day
• April 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Ethiopia; Celebrating Earth Day with Fair Trade
• March 2003 Bill's Central American Adventures, Part 2; SWP Decaffeination
• February 2002 Bill's Central American Adventures, Part 1
• January 2003 My Life as a Bean
• December 2002 Exploring Our Origins: East Timor; Sustainable Development
• November 2002 New Website; Gift Baskets
• October 2002 Interview with roaster Lee Harris
• September 2002 ForesTrade Wins UN Sustainability Award; Exploring Our Origins: Sumatra's Gayo Cooperative
• August 2002 Producer News: Shade Grown; Fair Trade Friends: Atlanta Audubon
• July 2002 Exploring Our Origins: Colombia
• June 2002 Back Roads Journal: Cooperative Coffees and Café Campesino; Exploring Our Origins: Peru; Fair Trade Friends: Music of the Andes
• May 2002 Staff Notes: Cinco de Mayo; Producer News: Visit to Mut Viz; Back Roads Journal: SCAA Meeting
• April 2002 Back Roads Journal: Travels in Fair Trade; Customer Composting Tip