organic farming
Organic farming has clear benefits for our customers, grower partners, and the environment, and we support smallholder farmers in organic production and purchase all we can. At the Más Café coffee co-operative in Mexico, coffee growers are returning to traditional, organic farming methods.
The local landscape around Más Café
reforestation
In order to process freshly picked tea leaves, many factories use steam that comes from wood-fuelled boilers.
Working with us, one of our Tanzanian tea partners, RSTGA, has developed a programme to grow and sustainably harvest Blue Gum trees to fuel their factory.
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Blue Gum trees, tea bushes & banana trees sharing field space at RSTGA.
energy efficiency
Most factories require electricity to run machinery and coffee and tea factories are no different. We worked with two of our Kenyan tea partners, Michimikuru and Kiegoi, to dramatically increase their energy efficiency.
Energy efficiency work in progress at the Kiegoi Tea Factory in Kenya