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Sustainable Harvest imports high quality sustainable specialty coffees from around the world.  We have worked with Sustainable Harvest for over 12 years, and through this business relationship, Green Mountain Coffee has developed strong ties with many coffee farmers, their communities, and their farm organizations. 
Many of the coffees that Sustainable Harvest sources for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters are [...]

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In the past few years both Scottish and Welsh governments were actively attempting to become the “world’s first fair trade country.” In Wales, the campaign to make Wales the world’s first Fair Trade country was launched in 2004 by the National Assembly for Wales.  In Scotland, First Minister Jack McConnell pledged that Scotland will aim [...]

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I gave a bag of coffee to a friend of mine recently as a housewarming gift. She took one look at it and said “Do you have anything that’s Fair Trade?”
I confess, before I started working for Green Mountain Coffee, I didn’t understand what Fair Trade (FT) meant exactly. Even when I settled on FT [...]

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GMCR was again included on Forbes’ list of “Americas 200 Best Small Companies.”  We were ranked #55, up from our 2007 ranking of #88.  This year, Forbes gave us a special call-out in the “Everyday Tech Stars” section for the Keurig brewer.
Click Here for our inclusion in the “200 Best” introductory piece.  Below is a nice quote [...]

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Submitted by Joel White
Joel White, Product Marketing Director at Green Mtn. Coffee, recently went on a source trip to visit the co-ops where we source our Fair Trade Colombian coffee.  The week-long adventure included high-mountain jeep trips to several small, remote coffee farms and cooperatives.  He was greeted and welcomed along the way by many [...]

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In January, 2007, I went on a “source trip” to Nicaragua with Green Mountain Coffee.  Over 18% of our employees have traveled to coffee-producing countries to learn about the hard work that goes into growing and harvesting high-quality coffee. 
One of the most valuable parts of the trip is the chance to talk directly with farmers [...]

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When we first started sourcing and roasting coffee for Newman’s Own Organics, we took Nell Newman down to Guatemala to meet some of the farmers who grow organic, Fair Trade Certified™ coffee.
Nell is President of Newman’s Own Organics and the daughter of the late Paul Newman.  Like many people on their first trip to source, [...]

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