Stewardship Roast
100% Fair Trade Coffee
People of faith, wake up and smell justice, earth stewardship and community!
Wake up and smell the Fair Trade coffee!
Your parish or faith community can now enjoy great coffee flavor – AND – help two groups of farmers at homeand abroad. Churches’ Center for Land & People is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. We advocate for farmers in Iowa , Illinois and Wisconsin . We’re supported by people of Lutheran, Episcopal, Catholic, United Methodist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Quaker and Unitarian faiths. You can read about our initiatives (especially apprentice farmer training/ placement and winter farmers market benefit sales for a farm crisis fund) at www.cclpmidwest.org
To cover expense of our work to help Midwestern farmers, we buy quantities of Fair Trade coffee from Chiapas , Mexico . We then sell this coffee in 1 lb. bags of Dark Roast, Light Roast or Decaf as a fund-raiser. From every bag you purchase, about 25 percent goes to self-help and farm crisis initiatives for U.S. farmers. The balance helps indigenous coffee producers who subscribe to shade grown and organic practices and their U.S. roaster and representative – Just Coffee.
To order coffee (ground or whole bean), contact Tony Ends at Churches’ Center for Land and People, 4200 County Hwy M, Middleton , WI 53562 / 608 831-9319 or cclp@tds.net .
Fair Trade – Shade Grown – Organic Coffee
About our supplier – Just Coffee Just Coffee evolved out of a partnership between activists in Madison, Wis., and coffee growers in Chiapas , Mexico . In 1999, Community Action on Latin America (CALA) began a sister project with the autonomous municipality of Santa Catarina in Chiapas . With few resources, the group began exploring ways to help these autonomous Mayan indigenous communities. Their goal was to help improve their basic living conditions in an area of intense poverty and civil strife. One way the people of Santa Catarina thought CALA could help was in selling their coffee in fair U.S. markets. Thus was born a project called Just Coffee, which is dedicated to fair exchange for all the coffees it offers. It now buys some of the finest coffees from some of the world’s best grower cooperatives. All partner growers receive a fair price, presently 3 to 4 times more than world coffee market prices. All the cooperatives are democratically organized and use a portion of proceeds to build community infrastructure such as schools and clinics. Money saved by bypassing middle-men allows Just Coffee to offer competitive prices while paying markedly more to grower-partners. Just Coffee is in Madison , Wis. , at 100 S. Baldwin St., Suite #111 , Madison , WI 53703 . (608) 204-9011, or info@justcoffee.net.