Mother's Day Gift Basket A perfect gift for spoiling the mom who rarely spoils herself. Includes apples, pears, strawberries, citrus, almonds, cookies, Wise Woman Tonic, flowers, and a Body Care Sampler. Price includes Fed-Ex overnight delivery to most areas. The organic shade-grown coffees we sell really do taste better because they grow more slowly and develop richer flavors. In addition, these are all Fair Trade coffees, which means that, while protecting species and their habitats, the small farmers that produce them are paid a fair market price that enables them to improve their standard of living.
Organic coffee is produced by an approach that views the farm as an ecosystem.
Emphasis is placed on recycling, composting, soil health, and biological activity with the goal of long-term protection of the farm environment. Synthetic chemicals are rigorously avoided. American bird conservationists in particular are interested in shade-coffee. Depending on the species of shade trees used and the structure of the tree cover, anywhere from a few to scores of resident and migratory bird species will use Latin American and Caribbean coffee farms for food and cover. Ornithologists have consistently documented the importance of shade-coffee habitat in the increasingly deforested landscape of the Neotropics.