Tagged: coffee

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The People Behind the Products

Fairtrade ensures better prices, good working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Fairtrade companies pay sustainable prices (meaning they never fall lower than the...

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Cafedirect – Mayan Gold

Cafedirect is the UK’s largest 100% Fairtrade hot drinks company. All their products carry the Fairtrade mark meaning they are guaranteeing a fair and stable price to 38 grower organisations across 12 developing countries...

DIY Natural Coffee Scrub

Homemade beauty products are so easy to make. They don’t tend to last as long as the store bought equivalent because they don’t contain preservatives, but making a little at a time is good...

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Cafédirect: Fairtrade Coffee at its Finest

Did you know that Cafédirect was the UK’s first Fairtrade certified coffee company? In fact Cafédirect was fair trade before the certification mark was created, that’s how ahead of the times they were –...

Fairtrade Fortnight: Cafédirect

Fairtrade Fortnight: Cafédirect

Not only has Cafédirect been making great coffee since 1989, it was the first producer to bring Fairtrade certified coffee to the UK! That year an international coffee agreement (which fixed global prices according...

Tea break

Tea break

Fact of the week: Did you know that tea bags were invented in America in the early 1800s to hold samples of tea from India. 96% of all cups of tea served in Britain...

Making the perfect cup of coffee

Making the perfect cup of coffee

On Friday we mentioned on Facebook about making the perfect cup of coffee. The blog post from Cafedirect gave detailed instructions of how to make the perfect cup using a cafetiere. The coffee drinkers were...