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Café Mbeya

Direct Fair Trade Tanzanian Coffee

This coffee is grown by friendly, confident, amicable people in a lush, mountainous region alongside bicycles and bananas. What a picture to accompany your morning cup of coffee! For maximum impact, we suggest you sit outside while enjoying this coffee (Canadians may wish to exercise this option seasonally).

 

PRICES INCLUDE DOMESTIC SHIPPING

Café Mbeya, Tanzanian Coffee
$15.00 300 g package

Very aromatic tastes of Dutch cocoa, hints of vanilla, rosy floral and long pleasant finish. Our favourite preparation of Café Mbeya is a straight shot of espresso (medium roast) or a French Press of the dark roast.

For the 3812 farming families who comprise the HOPE Project, sales of the coffee they grow typically yields 50% or more of the annual family income. That means that the Level Ground Trading purchases of coffee from this region will translate to 50% or more of the household income for approximately 1300 farming families this year.

Additionally

  1. The prices being paid are higher than those paid by coffees grown in the same area and help support the ongoing organic farming practices of the HOPE Project farmers.
  2. The prices being paid enable the CPUs to hire 60 full-time workers at peak harvest time to process Cafe Mbeya from fresh harvested cherries to sun-dried parchment.
  3. Also, our purchases of the green coffee fund the total health insurance costs for 300 'mamas' and their families. An estimated total of 1500 beneficiaries. They receive their treatment at no additional cost when they visit the Mbozi Missionary Hospital.

 

Grown by small-scale farmers near the villages of Sange and Luswisi in Mbeya (Ileje district). This coffee features a full body that is bright and bold.

Altitude: 1,350m to 1,850m

Harvest:  April to October (primarily July & August)

Certification: Organic Certified by Institute for Marketology (IMO)

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