Subject: FW: Coffee article
Date: Oct 2 16:50:40 2000
From: Wes Jansen - nikonf7 at hotmail.com


At our store in LaConner, we've been selling Songbird Coffee since we opened
in March. I believe I've seen it in other birding stores as well. It's
backed by the American Birding Association, and we have a video showing the
plantations where it's grown. Wilsons Warblers are among the species that
benefit from shade-grown coffee. I always try to remind customers that
shade-grown is available at most grocery stores now, and even if they don't
want to buy coffee from us at the time, they can still get it almost
anywhere now. Tony's has a good shade grown available in Haggens up north
here, and I've also tried Seattle's Best (also quite good).

wes jansen
Fine Feathered Friends
603 Morris St.
LaConner, WA 98257
(360)466-5002
finefeatheredfriends.com



>From: Lauren Braden <LaurenB at seattleaudubon.org>
>Reply-To: LaurenB at seattleaudubon.org
>To: "'tweeters at u.washington.edu'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: FW: Coffee article
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:25:30 -0700
>
>Tweets - this response is from Ashley Parkinson, who is the Campaign
>Coordinator for Seattle Audubon's Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ashley Parkinson [mailto:ashleyparkinson at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:12 PM
>To: laurenb at seattleaudubon.org
>Subject: Coffee article
>
>I agree--after one gets past the headline and first
>few paragraphs, it's obvious the article is just
>saying that shade coffee isn't for every species
>(not a new concept by any means).
>
>But we know that rustic shade coffee is one of the
>lowest-impact farming practices occuring in Central
>America right now, and there is clear evidence that
>shade plantations are far better for most birds than
>sun plantations.
>
>The mission of the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign
>(and other conservation campaigns working on this
>issue) is to keep shade plantations from being
>converted to sun (or other more destructive forms of
>agriculture), but clearly no one is saying that
>shade plantations are better than native forest or
>that we should be converting native forest to shade!
>
>Ashley Parkinson
>
>-------------------------
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: R.J. Cannings & M. Holm
> > [mailto:mholm at vip.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:18 AM
> > > To: tweeters
> > > Subject: Re: shade grown coffee study
> > >
> > >
> > > I didn't find the shade-grown coffee report
> > > mentioned yesterday on
> > > Tweeters
> > > "discouraging" at all. It's obvious to anyone
> > > seeing a shade coffee
> > > plantation that it would not be suitable for every
> > > last bird species in
> > > Central American forests. The point is that shade
> > > coffee plantations
> > > are
> > > far, far better for birds in general (and probably
> > > long-distance
> > > migrants in
> > > particular) than the essentially sterile sun
> > coffee
> > > plantations that
> > > dominate the scene. I would certainly be
> > surprised
> > > to see a Ruddy
> > > Woodcreeper in any coffee plantation, but to
> > witness
> > > the foraging of
> > > hundreds of warblers, tanagers, orioles and
> > > hummingbirds in blooming
> > > Inga
> > > and Erythrina trees in the simplest of shade-grown
> > > plantations is enough
> > > to
> > > warm the heart of any caffeine addict.
> > >
> > > Dick Cannings
> > > 1330 Debeck Road
> > > S11, C96, RR#1
> > > Naramata, BC V0H 1N0
> > > CANADA
> > >
> > > (250) 496-4049
> >
> >
>
>
>=====
>Ashley Parkinson
>Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign Coordinator
>Seattle Audubon Society
>8050 35th Ave. NE
>Seattle WA 98115
>206-706-7827
>www.seattleaudubon.org
>
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