organic coffee

where to find organic and fair trade coffee

Your local store may not have a good selection of organic or fair trade coffee. But thanks to the Internet, they are widely available. Here are some of the best places on the Web to shop for organic coffee.

Roger's Gourmet Coffee and Tea Market
A variety of coffees (and teas), including a good selection of organic under the Organic Coffee Co. brand. Visit them for 15% off your order of $90 or more, 10% off $60 or more, and free shipping over $30.

Mystic Monk Coffee
They're serious about the "monks" part. Each bag of coffee is roasted and prepared for you in a hidden, cloistered monastery where each roast is the work of perfection and a labor of love.

Beans for Better Life
"Drink up, give back." They buy beans at a Fair Trade price but give an additional 10% of gross profits back to the farming co-ops. Single origin, certified organic.

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters
Bird Rock buys coffee that has been grown responsibly and strives to carry certified organic beans. In addition to the organic beans, they seek coffee that is grown on small family farms or by small co-ops and buy green beans from only reputable coffee brokers who have shown a commitment to both the environment and to ensuring that the small family farmers earn a fair price for their crop. They focus on single-origin beans, rather than blends.

Brown's Coffee
Fair trade and organic, coffee, tea, and chocolate. They have both blended and single-origin coffees, and offer a coffee club.

Cafe Altura
Shade grown, richly-flavored 100% organically grown coffees cultivated from Guatemala, Hawaii, Mexico, Sumatra, Peru and Colombia. They have some biodynamic coffees also.

Café Canopy
Triple-certified (organic, shade-grown, fair trade) coffees. A small, independently owned coffee company, they roast coffee daily in small batches. They use a vintage Probat coffee roaster that utilizes a cast iron roasting drum ensuring that the coffee roasts evenly and gently, and producing a coffee that is always rich, complex, and smooth.

Cafe Mam
Organic, fair trade certified coffee grown by fair-trade cooperatives of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The growers, primarily of the Mam, Tzetzal and Mochó peoples, are organized according to egalitarian democratic ideals that stress responsibility to the co-op, hard work and high standards. Their programs provide countless benefits to outlying native communities.

Dean's Beans
Organic and fair trade coffees from around the world. A variety of blends to choose from, or design your own.

Elan Organic Coffee
A San Diego, California-based coffee developer and importer that offers a line of certified organically shade grown coffees which it has developed through partnerships with village co-ops in coffee production countries in Central America, South America, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. Elan has pioneered the supply of the world’s finest certified organic coffees, while supporting farmers and protecting the environment.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Fair trade, organic, exotic origin, Green Mountain has an extensive selection. They carry the Newman's Own organic line as well.

Jim's Organic Coffee
"Jim" welcomes you to his site saying, "Coffee is my love, Organic is my passion." Decaf and flavored coffees too, in 12 ounce or 4- or 5-pound bags.

Kalani Coffee
All Kalani Coffees are certified organic, shade-grown arabica beans. Their West Coast style is a hot, fast, gas fired drum-style roast, producing the deepest flavor and fullest body coffee for their varietal blends.

Koa Coffee
100% pure Organic Kona Coffee - an elegant and rich cup of coffee, full of body, flavor, and aroma, and naturally lower in acids, oils, and caffeine. Winner of the 2002 Gevalia Kona Cupping Award and 2004 PCCA Coffee of the year, and called the "Best Coffee in America" by Forbes.

The Organic Coffee Company
Nothing but organic coffee and teas, including their clubs and gift baskets. Search on "fair trade" to find their selection of fair trade coffees as well. Lots of good information too. Free shipping over $30.

Rocamojo
"Making coffee healthier." They have organic soy-based beverages as well as organic coffee. Running a good special right now: buy any three 100% coffee products and get the fourth free.

Strictly Organic Coffee
Strictly Organic Coffee offers a wide range of certified organic coffees from all over the world. If you happen to live in Bend, Oregon, they'll deliver it to you free.

Tesoro del Sol
Organic Costa Rican coffee. Tesoro del Sol is a small collective of organic coffee farms located in the Central Volcanic Mountain district of Costa Rica. Their coffee is high altitude and shade grown, strictly hard bean Arabica, fully ripe and hand selected, sun dried, and small-batch roasted.

The Roasted Bean
A "micro-roastery," The Roasted Bean roasts small quantities and can easily roast to order. Organic, fair trade, shade grown. Naturally-flavored coffees too.