A Triple Win for Peru’s Rain Forest This story is from the 2019 November/December Arbor Day Foundation Newsletter and updated on October 1, 2021. Sign up for the Arbor Day e-news to get updates right to your inbox. East of the great Andes Mountains and west of the Amazon Basin lies an area of Peru known as the highland jungle. It is a land of steep slopes with fertile soil and temperatures that are ideal for coffee plants. This remarkable place is…
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The Arbor Day Coffee program was founded more than 25 years ago to support shade-grown coffee practices in Central and South America.…
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought challenges to everyone. As they say, we are alone in this together. Yet coffee continues to bring us together on a global scale and reminds us that the entire…
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From melting glaciers to larger and more frequent forest fires, climate change is affecting the world in which we live. Tropical trees and coffee shrubs are among the living things influenced by the changes…
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Great coffee starts with great beans, but harvesting beans requires energy, energy that releases carbon. There are so many people involved from seed to cup that it makes it crucial now more than ever…
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Arbor Day Coffee is grown by farmers who are committed to using sustainable agroforestry management practices on their farm. Agroforestry is a land use management system where trees or shrubs are grown around crops…
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Have you heard the story of Kaldi the goat herder and his frolicking herd? The famous Ethiopian legend tells the story of Kaldi who noticed how excited his sheep became after eating fruit from…
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Arbor Day coffee is organically grown under the canopy of the rain forest in Latin America. Every delicious cup you drink preserves 2 square feet of rain forest, provides growers with a fair wage,…
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Jon Ferguson our Coffee Quality Specialist, spoke with Tg-Lab —a Guatemalan owned and operated coffee laboratory dedicated to the creation of specialty coffee — about Agroforestry on a recent trip to Guatemala. Jon explains…
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The idea behind fair trade products is to help producers in developing countries receive better pricing and make a positive impact on the economic and environmental conditions of their communities. These principles are at…