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11/10/10, 03:26 PM
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Where do you get organic coffee?
I have been buying the Sam's club brand organic beans, but it's a pain driving all the way up there after tracking down someone w a membership card to go with me - then I have to buy like 12 bags at once to stock up. Lat time I went they had no organic in stock.
Organic coffee seems hard to find around here unless you want to buy small bags at a super premium price. We are heavy coffee drinkers and go through tons of it.
Anyone know of a reasonably priced brand of organic beans, or pre-ground? 
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11/10/10, 03:55 PM
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Try this place. Way better then any Sam's Club stuff. Way better then any retail coffee you can buy.
And I am sure that you can get a discount price for "volume ordering too. Prices are for the "Fundraising" part. I am sure you can get a better price by contacting them and buying direct bulk orders. Try it and just see what kind of deal you can make.
http://hoveyvalleycoffeetraders.com/mcart/
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11/10/10, 03:59 PM
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HyVee has it here, so do a few other stores. > Thanks marc
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11/10/10, 04:17 PM
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I was buying the bags from Costco but it was just too bitter and not really high quality (if I am going to have coffee I want something decent).
This is a local company for me so I pick up but they have an online store, their coffee is wonderful. I have been buying the Trinity Blend for years. I buy in the 5lb bags, whole bean.
http://www.cafemam.com/store
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11/10/10, 04:41 PM
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I had no idea but the coffee I buy from World Market is supposed to be organic! http://www.worldmarket.com/product/i...ductId=4351039 Excellent price--terrific coffee. They ship but if you live near a WM, they have a coffee club; once you've purchased 6 regular 24 ounce bags, you get a 12 ounce one free. Buy it on Wednesday and you get double credit for every bag. (No, I don't own stock or anything--it's great value and great coffee!)
Edited: Whoops! The smaller bag is organic--not the larger one.
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11/10/10, 05:22 PM
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I used to get a certain brand of organic coffee from amazon.com, but the price suddenly skyrocketed and I could no longer afford it. 
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11/10/10, 05:23 PM
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http://www.marltoncoffee.com has some organic coffees. All the coffee I've gotten from them has been fabulous.
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11/10/10, 08:52 PM
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I have been buying Organic, Fair Trade, roasted coffee beans from Dean's Beans for several years now - Deans Beans. Their website says "certified organic, fair trade and kosher". I buy the Mexican Chiapas and have found it's a lot less acidic than the store boughten beans I have to buy when I forget to order early enough.
I had paid the same price for a 5lb bag for over 1 1/2 years until recently when they went up about $1 or so. It still comes out to less than $10 lb, including shipping. And to compare - at $7.99 for 12oz you pay $10.72 per lb.
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11/10/10, 09:04 PM
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www.amazon.com has lots of different kinds of organic coffee.
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11/10/10, 10:23 PM
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I agree with Pancho
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Thank you so much for the links. I will check them all out.
Hub ran to the store and came home with a can of generic "Coffee Chef" brand to use until we find something decent. I'm not sure I can force myself to drink it...it looks really nasty 
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11/10/10, 10:37 PM
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Just don't be "taken in" on what is called "Fair Trade" that is the most bogus thing going around the "in crowd". There is no such thing as "fair Trade. it is just a "Buzz Word", that makes some people feel good. And as far as organic goes,. Well thats is for another thread on another section of this forum.
Here is REAL "Organic Coffee".
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Kona coffee hanging out with the likes of pigeon poo, ostrich poo, pig poo,
bat guano, and...so forth? Discovery Channel?s Mike Rowe of the underground
hit Dirty Jobs thought coffee plantation work fi t right in, and spent a whole
day on the Big Island at Trent Bateman?s Mountain Thunder plantation high in
the coffee belt.
Of course, the work day started with poo (donkey variety, organic, too!) that
Mike with Trent and family members shoveled up to fertilize under the coffee
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http://www.mountainthunder.com/view_doc.php?view_doc=7
Now THAT is organic? lol. Many things can be called "organic".
Coffee is the second largest trading commodity next to Oil in the World.
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11/11/10, 12:55 PM
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Just don't be "taken in" on what is called "Fair Trade" that is the most bogus thing going around the "in crowd". There is no such thing as "fair Trade. it is just a "Buzz Word", that makes some people feel good.
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How so? What is your direct experience with FairTrade that you can say this with certainty?
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11/11/10, 12:57 PM
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We get ours from a Frontier Co-op. Cheap and good!
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11/11/10, 01:00 PM
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I disagree on the Fair Trade, it is not a scam. Paying the growers a decent wage for their beans is a good thing. 
If you like to order online I recommend this one:
http://www.groundsforchange.com
I usually buy mine at Starbucks, if you buy 4 pounds you get the 5th free. We go through a lot of coffee here!
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11/11/10, 01:31 PM
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How so? What is your direct experience with FairTrade that you can say this with certainty?
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Prejudice.
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11/11/10, 04:58 PM
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How so? What is your direct experience with FairTrade that you can say this with certainty?
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I have been with coffee buyers alone with my friend who does have a coffee business and has gotten into this discussion that fairtrade is not what people are led to believe it is.
The Inconvenient Truth About Fair Trade
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For example, in this month’s issue of Fast Company, we learn that “Fair trade ensures workers make a living wage”: Drink Better Coffee, Save The World – Mother Earth Coffee Co. – Jim’s Organic Coffee – Equal Exchange. Yet Fair Trade does no such thing. It merely guarantees a minimum price paid to co-operatives. Whether the co-operatives pass enough of the profits on to growers, and whether that minimum price can support living wages to begin with, are well beyond the scope of Fair Trade certification. Yet magazine publishers and socially conscious bloggers keep spreading these mis-truths without so much as batting an eyelash (or, at least, fact checking)
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Which raises the question: why are so many consumers, greenies, and (worst of all) greenie preachers putting their blinders on and bestowing Fair Trade with infallibility? Is the issue that these major flaws — flaws that have inspired some of America’s top roasters to abandon working with Fair Trade altogether — represent inconvenient truths that people just don’t want to hear? Whatever it is, it cannot be explained away with simple naïveté or even just wishful thinking
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http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/200...venient-truth/
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11/11/10, 05:20 PM
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I have been with coffee buyers alone with my friend who does have a coffee business and has gotten into this discussion that fairtrade is not what people are led to believe it is.
The Inconvenient Truth About Fair Trade
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For example, in this month’s issue of Fast Company, we learn that “Fair trade ensures workers make a living wage”: Drink Better Coffee, Save The World – Mother Earth Coffee Co. – Jim’s Organic Coffee – Equal Exchange. Yet Fair Trade does no such thing. It merely guarantees a minimum price paid to co-operatives. Whether the co-operatives pass enough of the profits on to growers, and whether that minimum price can support living wages to begin with, are well beyond the scope of Fair Trade certification. Yet magazine publishers and socially conscious bloggers keep spreading these mis-truths without so much as batting an eyelash (or, at least, fact checking)
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Which raises the question: why are so many consumers, greenies, and (worst of all) greenie preachers putting their blinders on and bestowing Fair Trade with infallibility? Is the issue that these major flaws — flaws that have inspired some of America’s top roasters to abandon working with Fair Trade altogether — represent inconvenient truths that people just don’t want to hear? Whatever it is, it cannot be explained away with simple naïveté or even just wishful thinking
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So the entire crux of his argument is what is in bold there. Interesting. He offers absolutely no proof whatsoever that any co-op does not pass on that money, nor does he offer any examples of it not living up to it's promise. Hmm....so he just wants us to take it on faith that because it is possible it must be happening????? Yeah right! First he calls Fair Trade buyers gullible and then throws out exactly the same sort of argument he claims they are now believing. 
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Is there a salvage grocery store anywhere close to you? I just bought a pound of organic ground coffee for $4 yesterday at the salvage store near me.
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