Nothing beats relaxing with a good book and your favorite cup o’ joe. For coffee connoisseurs, the joy of testing new brews is equivalent to the wine taster’s experience. This is the great pleasure I’ve been having lately with the Grounds for Change Songbird Gift Box. Grounds for Change is a unique coffee company; all of their coffee is organic and fair trade, and they roast to order and ship fresh daily. That means really fresh coffee!
Grounds for Change is giving away one Songbird Gift Box to one of you! Their Songbird coffees aren’t just your average bean. These days when coffee is grown, the fields are clearcut and the beans are grown in full sun. But the coffee shrub is a shade-loving plant. After scientific tweaking, coffee was developed to handle full sun. But truth be told, nothing is better than coffee grown as coffee should be – in the shade, surrounded by a wide variety of trees. These coffee farms, second in biodiversity only to the rainforest, quickly become the home to a wide variety of animals, including migratory birds whose songs surround the farms. Hence, the Songbird coffees of Grounds for Change.
But are they good? I’m telling you, I’ve not enjoyed coffee so fresh and wonderful in a long time. Peru “Cafe Femenino”, Agate Pass Blend, and Bolivia “Los Yungas” have been in my mug every morning for the past week, and every cup has been a pleasure. I love to prepare cappuccino, and in my opinion that can’t be done properly without a full wonderful coffee that lacks bitterness. All three of the Grounds for Change flavors have been smooth and delicious, perfect for cappuccino.
Now that you’re jonesing for joe, it’s your turn to enter to win! The Songbird Gift Box includes the following:
- Three 8 ounce bags of Fair Trade Organic coffee (Regular or Decaf; Ground or Whole Bean; Coffee Varieties Your Choice)
- One Fair Trade milk chocolate bar
- One Fair Trade copper & brass coffee scoop from Chile
1.) Just visit Grounds for Change and tell me something you liked or learned there. (You may enter once a day – following entries don’t require you to answer the question.) Remember, leave an interesting comment. If I cannot contact the winner, you might be chosen instead based on your comment.
2.) Email subscribers get an extra entry for as long as their subscription is active.
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3.) Blog about this giveaway on your blog with a link back to this post. Come back and leave me a Comment with a link to your blog post. (If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry – I may have to approve it first. My blog might think it’s spam but gosh darn, I certainly don’t!)
4.) I’m feeling Twittery. If you Twitter a link to this giveaway, come back and comment here to let me know your Twitter name for another entry! (I’m dkmommy if you want to follow me.)
Feel free to do all four, plus enter once a day, and you can gain up to 9 entries to win! You have until midnight EST on Sunday, January 4, 2009, to enter.
Check out all current giveaways for both my blogs here.
I learned that a majority of their coffee they sell is Shade Grown Coffee ensuring a healthy habitat for migratory birds.
I learned that fair trade coffee gives farmers a better standard of living and producer cooperatives are guaranteed a minimum fair price for their crop.
I learned (and liked) that they have a Coffee of the Month Club. Thanks for the giveaway!
I subscribed to your email.
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I like the fact they have organic teas also.
Grounds for Change is a certified organic coffee roaster specializing in 100% Fair Trade Coffee
I like that the coffee is organic.
I’m happy to say I learned that they also carry Fair Trade Organic Tea & Chocolate, as I really enjoy a good cup of tea (and a good piece of chocolate!).
I like fair trade! We drink a lot of coffee and try to always buy fair trade.
I think it is great that this is produced via co-ops.
I learned that there is such a thing as carbon free coffee, and that they sell it!
I learned that shade-grown coffee is much less damaging to the environment and to migratory birds. I didn’t realize that nearly all coffee was shade-grown until 25 years ago…..then coffee grown in the sun took over, with harmful consequences.
Yummy! I love coffee, now sitting and reading that is a challenge. Coffee is poured and sipped in between diaper changes, laundry, baking and nicely saying “pick up those toys”
Here is what I learned:
Organic, Shade Grown, Fair Trade Coffee
All of our specialty coffee is Fair Trade Certified, Organic Certified and shade grown. We roast each of our origin coffees differently to bring out unique flavors and our Fair Trade Organic coffee is always fresh!
Thanks for the opportunity
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love the fact that the coffee is organic
I learned that Grounds for Change is the first coffee roaster to obtain Carbonfree certification, which is a rigorous process.
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I would love to win and try this!
I am a subscriber
I LOVE coffee! What more is there to say??
I like how they donate 1 percent of their earnings to environmental organizations. I was not aware that birds are endangered due to the increased demand of shade grown coffee.
I am already a subscriber, so just letting ya know, I NEEEED coffee:)
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Shade grown coffee protects migratory bird habitat and reduces clear-cutting in tropical rainforests as well as enhancing flavor.
I’d never even considered shade grown vs sun grown.That was very insightful.
I like that it is fair trade and organic.
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I am a subscriber.
learned about fair trade and fair living wages
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Learned they carry Fair
Trade Teas and Fair Trade chocolates.
Fair trade and fair living wages are
important world issues.
They are proud members of the Co-op America Business Network, the original socially responsible business network…
I learned they promote practices which help protect the environment.
all of their coffee is fair trade and they participate in1%for the planet
I am a subscriber
I learned that they have a “Coffee of the Month Club”
Thanks for the giveaway.
I like that they have coffee fundraisers. How neat!
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The batik wood tray is really pretty.
They are certified fair trade
which means that
fair trade coffee gives farmers a better standard of living and producer cooperatives are guaranteed a minimum fair price for their crop.
All of the coffee we roast is Fair Trade Certified.
It is also great by the fact that it helps out birds.
I have been reading a lot about fair trade lately. I think that Americans forget about the rest of the world.
Well, I did not know that there was a byproduct (chaff) to roasting coffee and that it could be used by farmers as a soil amendment. I am assuming that last part means it helps enrich the soil??
This is my favourite company to buy coffee from. I buy it in bulk (yeas I drink a lot of coffee).
Grounds for Change is a certified organic coffee roaster specializing in 100% Fair Trade Coffee. Fair Trade and Organic are both very important to me.
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My girlfriend bought me a 3 month subscription to Grounds for Change for my birthday. The most recent blend was the Solstice blend. It was heaven. I recommend all their coffee. It is so good.
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I learned that this is a 100% Fair Trade Organic Coffee. What could be better than that? I absolutely love coffee and drink it several times a day, but I don’t like the way alot of the workers are treated in other countries, so this would help the coffee go down better, lol.
thanks for sharing
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I have subscribed
thanks again
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I learned that their coffee is 100% Fair Trade Organic Coffee.
I tweeted about the contest http://twitter.com/condoblues/status/1086788079
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I learned that they offer “Coffee-of-the-Month Club”, and I wish I’d known of it before Christmas. I would have gifted several family members with it.
i like their samplers. thanks miketra@sbcglobal.net
I’m a subscriber Wow, I didn’t know there is so much to know about coffee. I love all the gift packs they have. Coffee and chocolate, how wonderful and they have teas, mugs and more chocolate………. I would love to try some new coffee flavors and of course the chocolate sounds so goooooood.