Singing
Rooster
: News Bulletins
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Earth Day 2013 :
2% of Haitian lands are forested. Read
why -->
Half are coffee plants.
Why? They won't cut them down because they're income-providing. PLUS, coffee trees are water intensive & therefore thrive in the shade of taller trees (i.e., they won't cut down trees protecting coffee plants).
Now add in this: coffee trees have an IDEAL root structure for holding delicate mountain soil in place (taps roots yes, but also horizontal roots stretching for METERS). Can coffee trees reforest Haiti? We're working on it.
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Donate to our coffee seedling fund to help reforest Haitian Lands: 59,000 seedlings so far... |
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Ask Haitians what they want and need most:
JOBS - Economic Independence
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February 2013: New Partnership with CRS
What do Haitians want and need most? JOBS -- which is another way of saying autonomy.
In one of our projects, we're working with Catholic Relief Services to improve the lives of coffee farming communities in the Beaumont region -- a once thriving coffee sector.
With CRS, the Rooster discusses issues, shares resources, and helps farmers to make long-term connections with other farmers and necessary markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
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Dangerous coffee hunting in Haiti?
Nah.. no hunt necessary – you can drive on partially paved roads straight to the source, sleep overnight in a quaint guesthouse, and breakfast on spaghetti and ketchup (it's a Haitian thing).
Singing Rooster.org has been doing this for years.
Read more about not so dangerous grounds --> |
December 2012
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August 2012: Story of a Home Coffee Roaster
Singing Rooster's Molly and Christophe met the delightful Corey O'Hara at the Clinton Foundation's coffee summit in 2011, Port au Prince.
Corey is a self-described food policy wonk where the buy local food movement is his passion.
Another passion? Coffee.
Corey roasts his own coffee with a bit of an unconventional technique -- a hybrid of the cast iron skillet and cookie sheet method. |
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July 2012
New Harvest is HERE.
David Miller's agility with a fork lift makes moving 1800 pound pallets easy. Just don't drop one on your foot.
Cupping (tasting) notes here. |
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2012 Grant, Inter-American Development Bank
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After the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, the IDB pledged to provide Haiti more than $2.2 billion in grants over the next decade to fund its recovery efforts and long-term development plans.
Singing Rooster began working in partnership with IDB to assist Haiti's coffee sector. |
Clinton Foundation Coffee Summit, November 2011
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Singing Rooster joined the Clinton Foundation's Coffee summit in Haiti, November 2011.
We made lots of new friends and came together with other nonprofits, for profits, farmers, roasters, exporters, and the Haitian government to discuss Haiti's coffee future.
By working together, we can assure farmers get the support they need to live better lives -- to become leaders of their communities, providers of stability.
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| Private Labeling: some groups want to use their own labels on our delicious Haitian coffee. It's possible, but requires a little work
SERRV.org puts a simple sticker about their organization on the back of the Rooster's coffee bag.
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The Children's Peace Project fills beautiful purple bags with the Rooster's roasted coffee (we helped them pick the bag & make the sticker) |
Health 4 Haiti buys our beans green & roasts / packages the coffee completely on their own.
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SERRV International & the Rooster
Nonprofit, fair trade retail giant SERRV.org began a partnership with Singing Rooster in June 2011. We couldn't be more thrilled! |
Roast your OWN?
Green Beans: we're now selling beans green to home and retail roasters. Tell your favorite roaster about the Rooster. |
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The
awesome
gals at
Equator
Estate
Coffees
& Teas,
Brooke
and Helen,
sent the
Rooster's
Molly to
Nicaragua
to a conference
on food
sustainability.
Molly's
back
from
her
wild
trip
to
Nicaragua
where she learned about growing mushrooms on coffee waste/pulp --->
read
more
A
Fair Trade
for Haitian
Coffee
-- article
about the
Rooster
written
by freelance
writer
Steve Furay.
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After
the
earthquake,
local
reporters
tracked
down
the
Rooster
and
others
who
work
in
Haiti.
We
had
returned
4
days
before
this
devastating
event
from
a
most
amazing
coffee
expedition
-
so
many
new
friends
with
so
much
heartache.
We
are
more
determined
than
ever.
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100%
of Singing
Rooster's
efforts
go BACK
to Haiti;
our
goal is
to provide
direct
assistance
to rural
coffee
farming
communities
through
interrelated support
for the sake of self-sustainability, dignity and economic autonomy.
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Singing
Rooster -
a registered 501 (c)3 nonprofit - offers a direct buyer relationship & on-the ground assistance to coffee farming communities in Haiti for the sake of self-sustainability, dignity & economic autonomy. We meet then EXCEED principles of fair trade.
We help cultivate and process high quality, gourmet Haitian coffee. Then we buy/export tons of green Haitian coffee beans and create new markets for it: roasted coffee, green coffee beans for home or commercial roasters, fundraising with coffee, and wholesale coffee to commercial roasters, cafes, and stores. This enables a stable outlet for our farmer partners and provides partial funding for our interrelated
support -- we return 100% of the proceeds of coffee sales back to the farmers and their communities. |
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