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International Brownie
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Clarke Family Coffee News
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Shelburne Falls Coffee Roaster
Distance: 94.7 Mi37 Bridge St
1370 Shelburne Falls
Equal Exchange, Inc.
- 50 United Dr
- West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
- 02379-1026
- Phone: 774.776.7400
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We've worked with small-scale farmers and their co-ops for over 25 years (and we've learned a lot along the way). Our small farmer sourcing is not only part of our mission, it's also our passion, as we seek out the best-tasting ingredients from innovative producer groups and bring them to you as sustainably and directly as we can.
Equal Exchange has created Big Change for over 25 years. It all started with an idea: what if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? Our founders - Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne - asked this question as they envisioned a trade model that values farmers and consumers. So they took a big risk and plunged full-force into changing a broken food system. In 1986, they started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn't look back.
Love chocolate? Want to see where it comes from and shake hands with the small-scale farmers who grow it? Then enter to win a spot on an Equal Exchange delegation this November to visit the CONACADO cacao co-operative in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1988, CONACADO is the oldest and largest Fair Trade and organic cacao co-operative, with 10,000 members.
The Association of Small Coffee Producers, "Farmers' Hands" is an organization of small-scale coffee producers in the highlands of southwestern Guatemala.
What makes our Organic Strawberry Jam and Orange Marmalade so sweet is the fairly traded sugar from a co-op in Paraguay, called the Asociacion Agricola Canera Del Sur. These sugar cane growers came together so they could collectively negotiate with the local, privately owned sugar mill. Traditionally, the sugar business in Paraguay has left individual producers with little bargaining power and no access to price or market information, leaving them with low prices that fail to provide a sustainable livelihood for their families. Fair Trade purchases–like yours–give growers a better price.