New Orleans It’s a Tuesday, but the City of New Orleans is shutdown. I drove down Esplanade Avenue to Fair Grinds Coffeehouse this morning at 5:30 AM through dark and deserted streets. The donut place on the corner of Broad Street had been hopping with a dozen pickup trucks and cabs at that time on Monday morning …
Category: Coffee
Fairtrade Coffee and the Port of New Orleans
New Orleans This week for the first time I attended a meeting of the Port Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Having written the head of the Port for help in getting more fairtrade coffee shipped through New Orleans and receiving no answer, it seemed I had little choice but to take a shot at …
Coffee to the Coffee Growers: Diverseo Café in Tegucigalpa
Denver Following the model of the partnership between ACORN International and Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, we are trying something new, beginning in Tegucigalpa, Honduras with ACORN Honduras leading the program. We source our organic, fairtrade certified coffee beans from Central American countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Some of the best Arabica coffee beans in the …