Ordering Info
Since 1990 the Sister Islands Association has imported fine
coffee from our sister island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. We call it
Café Oro de Ometepe, and you can order
it now, using our secure Web server and your VISA or Master Card.
Café Oro is specially grown, specially bought, and specially
roasted. We're pleased to call many of the farmers our friends,
including Cooperativa Carlos Díaz Cajina (Coop-CDC). Coop-CDC is a producer
cooperative of 29 families that owns a farm on the slopes of Maderas,
one of the two volcanos that forms Ometepe. Click on the links below
for more details about this remarkable, and delicious, coffee.
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Fair Traded, Shade Grown, Certified
Café Oro is Fair Traded
The purchase price is based on the cooperative's expenses plus a profit
margin, and is considerably higher than market price.
It's Shade
Grown. Growing coffee in the shade of the overstory
of a forest preserves habitat for animals and birds, and conserves
planetary "lung tissue."
And it's Certified Organic
The coffee has been grown without artificial fertilizers, pesticides or
herbicides since 1979. In 1995 Coop-CDC's cafetal received its first
certification as an organic producer. Organic coffee is safer for the
farmers and their neighbors, and safer for you.
On
Bainbridge, the beans are roasted once a week by Pegasus Coffee, one of
the Pacific Northwest's finest roasters. A crew of 50 volunteers takes
turns bagging and shipping the gourmet coffee.
Café
Oro is a rich, low acid coffee that makes a great morning cup and a
smooth espresso.
The
Association is made up entirely of volunteers. ALL of the Association's
income from the coffee has been returned to Ometepe. It has bought
materials and engineering, and local families have volunteered
thousands of hours of work to build gravity-fed water systems, bringing
the first ever clean drinking water to nearly 10,000 island residents.
Order Café Oro via our secure Web server. You can order by email at orders@bosia.org (optionally using our PGP public key) or you can call +1-206-842-0774.
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