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.
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They are members of Coop America, which I have always trusted.
Another daily entry for me.
Lots of interested people.
I love that they have organic teas.
I learned the following when I visited Grounds for Change website. Interesting!:
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!
I like that the company recycles all inbound freight pallets by donating them to a local business that rebuilds them for reuse. Very cool!
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So songbirds surround the coffee while it’s growing! What happy beans they must be!
I like that they use a lot of recycled products and recycle much of their waste.
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I like that Grounds for Change promotes shade-grown coffee; it’s criminal to cut down trees just to be able to grow more coffee, cheaper…and I’m a hard-core coffee drinker.
I love the fact that they try to off-set all of their CO2 emissions
I learned that shade-grown coffee damages the environment less than coffee grown in the sun.
If I did not love this company, I would not be coming back each day in hopes of winning.
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Here again…have a wonderful Saturday!
Back for another entry- have a fabulous weekend.
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I like that the coffee is organic.
Hi, this is my Sat. entry.
1/3/09 – Thanks for the giveaway!
Grounds for Change – go green, do good, give your coffee jones what it needs. Who knew they had tea, too!
I learned that shade grown coffee protects migratory bird habitats.
I learned that: Shade grown coffee protects migratory bird habitat and reduces clear-cutting in tropical rainforests as well as enhancing flavor.
The are a family owned business located in the Pacific Northwest. I live in the PNW and this is the first I’ve heard of them, so I DEFINITELY learned something new today!
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THEY are a family owned business located in the Pacific Northwest. I live in the PNW and this is the first I’ve heard of them, so I DEFINITELY learned something new today!
all of their coffee is organic and fair trade, and they roast to order and ship fresh daily
Shade-grown coffee protects birds.
All of their coffee is organic and fair trade, and they roast to order and ship fresh daily.
entering today. would be great to have.
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I was interested that the coffee is grown in the shade! Thanks!
Entry 3, can you tell my hubby likes coffee, so I am entering to win him something nice.
Another day, another entry:) I would love to try this Fair Trade Organic coffee! I love the company’s philosophy and vision statements.
maggie@mannwieler.com
Something I like….the name Grounds for Change. Thanks!
I enjoy organic products and I learned about the importance of Fair Trade with the farmers.
Organic coffee! The only way to go
I learned that shade-grown coffee is much less damaging to the environment and to migratory birds.
I love the diversity of all of the different kinds of writing of various nationalities.
I learned that the coffee shrub is a shade loving plant and shade grown coffee protects migratory bird habitat and reduces clear-cutting in tropical rainforests as well as enhancing flavor.
another daily entry – thanks!
I learned that they have a fundraising program. I think that is cool. I would much rather buy coffee from some neighborhood kid than crappy chocolate that doesn’t even taste like chocolate and you get 6 pieces in a box for $14.95. At least if you are going to do a fundraiser, give me something of value for my $$! Coffee – now that I could go for!
Thanks for having the giveaway! Looks like a great company.
I love the coffee of the month club!
Fair trade and organic score big points for me!
Brand new company for me and I live in the Pacific Northwest and they have Chai tea, and i should add milk and sweetner. It is all good!
Back for another entry, thanks!
Entering again. Thank you.
Kudos to CarbonFree Certified Coffee by Grounds for Change-
They are the first coffee roaster in the country to complete the rigorous certification process necessary to obtain CarbonFree® Certification:
“crop to cup” analysis includes the following steps:
Organic cultivation of coffee plant
Non-mechanized harvest of coffee cherries
Pulping and washing of cherries (to extract beans)
Sun drying of coffee beans
Transport of beans to dry mill for hulling
Burlap bags used to contain finished green coffee
Transport to port city in country of origin
Ocean transport from origin to US west coast ports
Warehousing in US port cities
Transport to Grounds for Change roastery
All energy used in roasting processes
All energy used in operations and business travel
Coffee packaging materials, labels and shipping boxes
Transport of finished coffee to customer
Customer disposal of empty coffee bag
Besides coffee, according to the grounds for Change website: We proudly offer Fair Trade Organic Tea and Organic Yerba Mate from all tea growing regions of the world. Fair Trade chocolate bars in five varieties are a great way to round off a meal and Fair Trade cocoa powder is perfect for baking or making decadent hot chocolate.
The Batik Wood Serving Tray on the Grounds For Change website is too Gorgeous. And I will definitely be the proud owner of one soon.
Thank you so much for introducing me to this wonderful website.
Thank you so much for all of the wonderful giveaways.
They have a great variety of flavors and sell 5 pound bulk bags at a savings. I’ll pass along this info to friends and relatives who are interested in environmentally- and ethically-produced products.