Jamaica Research
November 5, 2009
National Zoo Now Features Bird Friendly® Coffee from El Salvador
October 16, 2009
The coffee comes from the unique Santa Teresa Estate in El Salvador owned by Marco and Teresa Batres.
The Santa Teresa Coffee Estate, operated by the Batres family for more than a century, is really an active volcano turned into a coffee estate. It may be the only coffee plantation in the world surrounded by geysers and thermal springs.
Sample Bird Friendly® Coffee
July 1, 2009
Golden Valley Farms is offering a special deal on a 100% Bird-Friendly®, Shade-Grown, 100% Organic Coffee Sampler (15 pouches).
See what Golden Valley Farms is offering
Coffee CEO Tribute
June 2, 2009
John Sacharok, co-owner and CEO of Golden Valley Farms Roasting in PA, which sells Bird Friendly® coffee, is featured in a website as a concerned businessman. It provides a nice example of his attitudes and values.
Golden Valley Farms
- 208 Carter Drive Suite 13B
West Chester, PA 19382 - Contact: John Sacharok (President)
- 610-719-0232 (Work)
- 610-719-0320 (Fax)
- sales@goldenvalleyfarms.com
- http://www.goldenvalleyfarms.com/
Birds and Beans Roasters
May 19, 2009
Toronto-based roaster Birds and Beans, a long-time supporter of the work done by the SMBC, is one of Canada’s premier Bird Friendly® coffee purveyors. In their quest to educate the public and bring great tasting coffee to consumers, Birds and Beans Roasters regularly help sponsor local bird walks in the Toronto area.
Canned Bird Friendly Coffee
May 18, 2009
One of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center’s strongest roasting partners in Japan, Kaldi Coffee Farm (owned by Camel Coffee Co., Ltd.), has created a canned coffee (by using an environmentally-friendly paper container) called Café Kaldi/Bird Friendly® Blend.
Bird Friendly Coffee in a Carto-Can
April 21, 2009
Bird Friendly Coffee in a Carto-Can
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Bird Friendly Coffee Bird List
April 21, 2009
Help Counter the Effects of Climate Change
March 17, 2009
Help the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center fight the effects of global change by voting for our grant proposal.
Vote for the Project!Project Proposal
Hurricanes pose one of greater threats to coffee production zones within the Central America/Caribbean region. Field-based research and personal experience from coffee producers reveal that landscapes with more vegetation complexity (i.e., forest-like cover) ride out the damaging effects of high winds and heavy rain more than exposed or less-forested ones.
Global warming has led to stronger hurricanes in recent years, and climatologists now predict the Central American/Caribbean region will experience long-term drying as the climate changes. Dry soils threatened by heavy rains can spell disaster: little infiltration and much flooding lead to landslides. A diverse canopy cover like coffee agroforestry systems can do much to mitigate both problems.
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center will work with coffee communities to get adequate tree cover established to counter the effects of climate change on coffee communities, and provide habitat as well. We have the network and the expertise.
Coffee Talk
February 25, 2009
Robert Rice and Russ Greenberg gave a presentation about Bird Friendly® coffee at the Bedford Environmental Summit. This community-based grassroots meeting attracted almost 1,000 people and was an excellent forum for interested people and organizations in New York and Connecticut where The Birds and The Beans Initiative is being launched to promote Bird Friendly® coffee.
They also met with leaders of Connecticut Audubon to work on ways of promoting Bird Friendly® certified coffee to birders in New England. Also, Russ Greenberg was interviewed on the Ray Brown Birding radio talk show.
