Watch Equal Exchange worker-owners Dana Welch and Pfeif make a “Small Farmer Special” smoothie at the Willy Street Co-op’s annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. Did we mention there’s a banana suit and blender bike involved? The event was held in July and attracted 2,300 people! Congratulations to Willy Street Co-op for contributing 35 [...]
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Banana smoothies anyone?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Got bananas? You bet, we’ve got bananas!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Equal Exchange Fair Trade bananas on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night on my way home from work, I stopped off at the Harvest Co-op in Jamaica Plain to get a few things for dinner. …. And there they were! Equal Exchange bananas! I can’t tell you how exciting it was to see them there on the shelf (proudly placed above the Dole bananas if [...]
ACTION ALERT: H.R. 2749 The Food Safety Enhancement Act
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Food Safety Act on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
H.R. 2749 The Food Safety Enhancement Act Take Action! Our friends at the Organic Consumers Association have sent out this important Action Alert. From the Western Organization of Resource Councils: The House of Representatives is working on H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. It’s an attempt to address the worst problems in [...]
In Their Own Words: Equal Exchange’s Co-op Partners Reflect on Their Visit to Mexico – Part II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, food co-ops, small farmer coffee co-operative on July 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In March, a group of seven representatives of various food co-operatives across the country joined three Equal Exchange worker-owners on a trip to Chiapas, Mexico to visit one of our coffee farmer partners, CESMACH. Many of them have written about this experience and have offered some very interesting perspectives on coffee farming, the CESMACH co-operative [...]
Food Safety—Action Alert—Congress to vote soon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Food safety, organic agriculture, small farmers on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congress may vote on HR 2749, The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, as early as this week. Equal Exchange, a member of the National Organic Coalition, has been working hard with other allies to make amendments to the bill before it is voted upon in Congress this week. Although many pieces of the legislation [...]
South African Rooibos Farmers Adapting to Climate Change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Climate Change Adaptation, Heiveld Tea Association, small rooibos farmers, South Africa on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While many folks in the U.S. (and Congress) are still coming to terms with the fact that climate change is a very real phenomena that we will have to come to grips with sooner or later, most small farmers have long since given up the luxury of this uncertainty as the changing climate is affecting [...]
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