Enjoy Our Northwoods Coffee

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The Audubon Center is proud to announce our own brand of coffee. In association with a Minnesotan company – European Roasterie, we now have organic, shade grown, fair trade coffee available for sale, with our own label and information on the package.

European Roasterie

We are pleased with this new product, not only because it promotes the Audubon Center, but because it is such a high quality, eco-conscious product. Shade grown coffee is a sustainable crop. It protects critical forest habitat for songbirds and also reduces the amount of chemicals used on the plants and the soil. The workers are paid a living wage for growing this type of coffee, which in turn encourages them to continue
this type of agriculture.

The Fair Trade Certified label by TransFair Canada guarantees that the coffee was grown responsibly and that the farmers who grew the beans got a fair price for them. Fair Trade Certified Coffee:

• Pays farmers a decent, living wage for their harvest
• Creates direct trade links to farmers and their cooperatives, bypassing exploitative middlemen
• Provides access to affordable credit, helping farmers stay out of the debt to local loan sharks between harvests

 

The Organic Coffee label by the Organic Crop Improvement Association guarantees that the coffee was grown without using any fertilizers, pesticides and other chemical products.

• Organic farming protects farmers and the environment from unsafe applications of fertilizers and pesticides while promoting a sustainable agriculture for future generations
• Organic certification requires that every step from planting, farming, harvesting and transporting by rail, sea and road be inspected and certified to be free of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and other chemical residue

Shade Grown Coffee that has been grown under shade trees, either
planted under an existing forest canopy or where trees are purposely
cultivated on a coffee plantation (sometimes called “managed shade”).

Originally coffee trees grew under the shelter of the taller forest trees. With the advent of industrial style agriculture (technification)- the older forests were cut down, so that coffee trees could be planted in full sun, because the beans are easier to harvest and initially the trees grow faster. However, the soil soon becomes depleted and insects attack the exposed trees, necessitating the use of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides (ingredients that are known to be bad for people and wildlife).

Studies have known that there are 97% fewer bird species visiting coffee grown in sun plantations than in the shade.

A beautiful Guan resting in shade-tree, beneath which coffee is growing.

You can purchase this coffee directly from us by calling 888/404-7743 or by emailing us at audubon1@audubon-center.org. A 12 oz bag costs $9.90-$10.90 (depending on the variety) and you have a choice of either whole bean or ground in five varieties: Velvet Hammer, Guatemalan, Sumatran, Mexican, and Nicaraguan, each of these five come in Decaf as well.

Raise Funds Selling Audubon Coffee

In addition, this coffee can be used as a fundraiser. If you have a group (Cub scouts, 4H, etc) that is in need of a product to sell, please consider our coffee. To order for fundraising, you need to contact Cindy Dorzinski at European Roasterie at 888-LUV JAVA. The company is donating a percentage of each sale to the Center.

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