Hi Kevin,

The December/January newsletter of the Seattle Audubon
Society (Earthcare Northwest) has an article about and a list of
brand names of locally available shade-grown coffee. They are
mostly available at co-ops at this time. If you are in Seattle, the
SAS Nature Shop also sells it and has brochures about it (or
check their web page?)

Re. Starbucks, the ECNW article states in part, "We tried
unsuccessfully over the past three years to get Starbucks
interested...Starbucks has declined to get on the shade coffee
bandwagon.... Perhaps some day consumer pressure will make
Starbucks change their position."

The article also presents some information on the Northwest
Shade Coffee Campaign, a consortium of coffee companies
and conversation organizations; and Cafe Audubon, a joint
effort between National Audubon and the Smithsonian
Migratory Bird Center.

BTW -- little packages of shade grown coffee make great
stocking stuffers and conversation starters!


Marlene Penry
mpenry at compuserve.com
Seattle, WA


>Message text written by Kevin Li Fri, 05 Dec 1997 10:13:18 -0800
>Subject: Shade Grown Coffee
>
>Hi Tweets,
>I was just down at the Pt. Reyes National Seashore, and the visitor's
>center carries ABA endorsed Shade Grown Coffee from the Thanksgiving
>Coffee Co. in Ft. Bragg, CA. I bought some, but have yet to try it. My
>apologies if this is too commercial for the discussion group, but it
>seemed there was sufficient interest from past discussion, and the ABA
>and Pt Reyes back the concept. The Pt. Reyes Bird Observatory had flyers
>on this coffee as well.
>
>www.thanksgivingcoffee.com
>1-800-648-6491
>
>BTW, I spoke with a staffer at Starbucks who claims that ALL their
>coffee is shade grown, and she said something about certain elevations
>being used exclusively as shade growing areas, which is where she says
>they buy from. I had some doubts about such a blanket statement, it
>seems by now that they would advertise this if it were true.
>
>
>Kevin Li
>kevin.li at metrokc.gov