Why Fair Trade?
Fair trade raises incomes and living standards for small coffee farmers while helping to protect the environment. Fair Trade doesn't provide aid or charity, but instead promotes self reliance and equality for farmers who are disadvantaged under present trading conditions.
Fair Trade practices include:
- Paying farmer families a fair price for their harvest that provides them with a decent living wage.
- Establishing direct, long-term trading relationships between buyers and farmers, fostering sustainability.
- Fair Trade inspectors confirm that the money actually reaches these family farmers in each country of origin and also monitor issues such as labor conditions, women's participation, and democratic representation.
1. Select the coffee or tea variety that you would like to purchase from the menus.
2. Select a bag size and whether you would like whole beans or ground in the pull-down menu or select a Quick Buy button for added savings.
3. If you use the pull down menu, press the Add to Cart button and wait a few seconds. Your shopping cart will appear. Make sure your selections are shown properly. Within your shopping cart you can specify if you would like more that one bag of your selection.
4. When you are finished with your selections, proceed to PayPal from the shopping cart screen to checkout. Your transaction will be completed using the secure PayPal site. (Note: You do not need a PayPal account to use this system, just a major credit card)
5. If you would like to make additional selections before you checkout, you may return to this page and add more items to your shopping cart.
6. If you use a Quick Buy button for any item, you will proceed directly to the PayPal checkout screen to complete your purchase, bypassing the shopping cart.
