COFFEE-TEA-ETC

After returning from the Peace Corps, I visited India to research the production of coffee and tea. After a careful analysis, we decided that a business of roasting coffee and selling coffees and teas would be an ideal endeavor for us. It gives us the satisfaction of being active in educating consumers and helping farmers while offering great products, and to that end we offer only certified organic and fair trade products... Our venture was inspired by a passion for the highest quality coffees and teas of the world. Our passion led us to study the industry from seed to cup. What we learned painted a bleak picture of the lives of coffee farmers, and assault on the environment and economies, caused by large corporate farms. The changing economies have forced the small sustenance farmers to abandon their age-old practice of growing coffee under a canopy of rain forest trees without the use of chemicals. To increase production farmers have cut down these trees and now grow coffee and tea..