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A sobering excerpt from the ‘Coffee Barons’ chapter of Austin Frerick’s fantastic book about consolidation in our food industry. We’re looking forward to hearing Austin’s keynote at our annual summit in Massachusetts on June 13. Register to attend at the link in our bio. Have you started reading Barons yet?

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Today’s the Last Day of our Anniversary Sale! Spread the word and tell your family and friends to shop today and stock up on their favorite small farmer grown coffee, chocolate, tea, nuts, dried fruit, olive oil and more. Together, we’re building a better food system that puts power back in the hands of small farmer co-ops, our own Equal Exchange worker co-op, and our vibrant and inspiring community of Citizen-Consumers. Cheers to entering our 40th year of learning what we are capable of! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤 Shop link in bio.

Just launched! The artisans of MarketPlace: Handwork of India created these special pieces just for Equal Exchange. Shop the new Patchwork Carryall Bag and block-printed cotton napkins, all with hand-embroidered details stitched by women’s artisan co-ops in Mumbai. We’re excited to partner with our fellow fair traders at MarketPlace, and even more excited to launch these new collaborative pieces during our Anniversary celebration. Shop at the link in our bio for 15% off during our annual sale. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤

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Today is May Day, which is also known as International Workers’ Day, a day to honor and strengthen the ongoing struggle for labor justice and dignity for workers around the world. It’s also our birthday! Join our celebration by enjoying one of our biggest annual sales of the year with 15% off on our site, now through Monday. Stock up on small farmer grown goods, direct from a worker-owned co-op. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤 Shop link in bio!

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Since 2010, USAID grants have funded our Co-op Development Project (CDP) work to improve climate resiliency, support gender equity, engage youth, and improve crop yields in collaboration with farmer co-ops. Our $4.9 million contract was broken abruptly by the US Government, but our work must continue. We’re initiating the Small Farmer Fund as a way to pool our community’s resources to keep these important farmer-led projects funded. We invite you to join us. 100% of your donations—whether large or small—go to strengthening these farmer co-ops as they face increasing climate and market challenges. Link in bio.

Happy Earth Day 🌎 These days, you may be hearing a lot about soil health. Ecologists around the world are advocating for a holistic understanding of our ecosystems that takes into account the carbon-capturing potential of "healthy soil". But what is healthy soil? Today on the Resource Center, we're sharing three profound yet straightforward takeaways from our sales director's recent visit to COMSA co-op in Honduras. There, Lynsey foraged for microorganisms in the old-growth forest alongside her hosts, collecting handfuls of stringy mycelia clumped onto pine needles to mix back into a turbo-boosted, nutrient-rich soil. Read more about this creativity and resourcefulness at the Resource Center link in our bio.

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Equal Exchange’s newest Women in Coffee series offering is Organic Double Shift, a Colombian light roast that’s rich and complex with tasting notes of black cherry, cocoa, molasses, and herbal notes. This series highlights and honors women leaders in the coffee supply chain and the human connections that are often very personal. Double Shift features the story of Anna, Equal Exchange’s Production Supervisor in Massachusetts, meeting Martha, a coffee farmer member of ASPROCAFE Ingruma in Colombia, where they spent a few days together on Martha’s farm. At our roastery, Anna leads a team that organizes and packs our coffee on the production line, and she had never been to visit a coffee farm in her 9 years at Equal Exchange until last year. It was a powerful and transformative experience. When she met Martha, a coffee farmer, retired nurse, and mother of 2, she was impressed. “She does everything—harvesting coffee, tending her fruit trees, caring for the chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigs, and bee hives. When you see her farm, everything is organized how she wants it. There are no pesticides. She likes living clean. Her compost is amazing. No waste; everything is used, reused, and recycled. I am more appreciative of the work the farmers do [now]. It’s hard work. I am [also] more appreciative of my work. I am also giving hope to people. I think about how many lives we are impacting. It’s a circle. Every bean is life.” Buy Double Shift whole bean by the 5lb bag at the Shop link in our bio.

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