Today is the day! Today officially marks the start of our one year of living, buying, and giving as justly as possible. Here are my food plans:
Shop at my local grocer co-ops, such as Wheatsville, as well as farmer's markets on Wednesday at the Triangle and Saturday downtown, and subscribe to Greenling. Buy only fair traded coffee, chocolate, nuts, spices, vanilla, sugar, and tea.
Some sites I love!
Divine Chocolate - 45% of the cocoa farm is owned by the women who farm it! UNHEARD of in the brutal world of cocoa bean harvesting. Not to mention the chocolate is amazing!
Just Love Coffee, Gobena, Land of A Thousand Hills - I am a coffee FREAK, and there are a million and one fair trade coffee sites out there, these are just some extra cool ones. Not only is the coffee super good and already produced ethically, but then the profits benefit the community in some way as well. I love double good products!
The great thing about shopping at a place like Wheatsville is that hopefully I can get them to carry some of these products. Joining a co-op has its advantages!
Would you order food or coffee online? Do you buy fair trade? Would you consider changing - why or why not? Let me know!
Have never ordered online, but I'm interested. I don't drink coffee, but caffeine is definitely my vice in its chocolate, tea and soda forms. I know about the EWG site for checking out details on personal care products, but how do you check on whether food is fair trade?
ReplyDeleteGreen and Black used to have way less fair trade options - but I noticed my last grocery trip that A LOT of their chocolate bars are now fair trade! Yay!!
ReplyDeleteThis isn't directly related to this post, but I just read a really interesting blog post (http://consciouslyfrugal.blogspot.com/2011/08/rambling-book-review-story-of-stuff.html). It's 4:30 am right now, and I've been up since 3, so my thoughts aren't really there to elaborate more. I'll come back again when they are...
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