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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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.
“Organic coffee is grown without the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, thereby assuring the health of the soil, forest and farmers. All of the coffee we roast is certified organic.”
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Final entry. hoping to win!
I love that the vast majority of the coffee that GROUNDS FOR CHANGE sells is also Shade Grown Coffee which ensures healthy habitat for migratory birds. That to me is magical!!! : )))
Thanks so much for this fabulous give~away! : )))
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I also subscribe! : )))
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And, I TWITTERED about this fabulous give~away…….user name: leahita.
http://twitter.com/leahita/status/1094923739
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What I like the most is the Coffee of the Month Club. That would be so much fun to have a new coffee each month! And shipping is included!
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I learned about the Fund Raising opportunities with their Fair Trade, organic coffee.
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nice that it is produced via co-ops
farmers get a better standard of living
Sounds like they do a wonderful job keeping chemicals and pestisides out of their product. I love that!
Im also a subscriber!!
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(I learned that they recycle all of their empty burlap coffee bags.)^2
I like the 3.0 Liter Stainless Steel Coffee Airpot.
Learning that your process of growing is protecting migratory birds impressed me. I so enjoy the melodic sound of songbirds
The main thing I like is the coffee is organic.
grown without the use of chemical pesticides
I love the fact that Grounds for Change also carries fair trade cocoa. Its nice to know that when you purchase this product, it ensures that these growers get a guaranteed fair price for their premium quality beans and the security of a long term trading relationship. Thanks for the opportunity to win some coffee!
I promoted your giveaway on Luck Happens: http://www.luck-happens.com/january-4.html. I hope you don’t mind!
I learned about fair trade and fair living wages.
Grounds for Change roasts coffee to order and ships daily.
I like knowing that Grounds for Change sells shade-grown coffee.
I linked your contest on Twitter – my name there is AsTheNight and you can find your link at http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/1095092626 .
I like that you can find out about each variety of the coffees. skyxsky27(at)gmail.com
Here for another entry. Enjoy your Sunday, and thanks again for the giveaway!
1/4/09 – Thanks for the giveaway!
I subscribe.
I’d never heard of Carbon Free Certification, but they’re the first ones in the country to qualify. I’m going to start looking into that now.
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They can help groups set up an on-going coffee fundraiser. What a brilliant idea. Those who drink coffee and tea have a recurring need for more and … I’m sitting here thinking about all the things I bought from school fundraisers over the years that I really didn’t want.
The coffeee is shade grown to protect migratory birds
Here’s my entry for today. Thank you!
Here is today’s entry. Thank you!
My son likes to say that I’m a recycle “nut” or in this case bean. I was very please to learn that Grounds for Change…
Recycles all of their empty burlap coffee bags by donating them to local organic farmers for weed suppression and the Washington State Coastal Clean-up Day as tough, biodegradable waste removal bags.
I’m back for another daily entry- thanks so much for the chance to win. We are trying to go organic/free trade wherever possible.
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I love that ‘Grounds for Change’ only use organic products! And that they donate more than 1% of their profits to charity! Thanks for the ‘awesome’ giveaway offering and Happy New Year!
I learned that the byproduct (chaff) to roasting coffee is used by farmers as a soil amendment. I’ve used coffee grounds for years but didn’t know this. Thank you!
Daily entry #2 – thanks for the contest.
Entry 4 to win hubby a nice gift.
Third entry for me.
I learned that a majority of their coffee is shade grown coffee providing habitat for migratory birds.
fair trade coffee gives farmers a better standard of living and producer cooperatives are guaranteed a minimum fair price for their crop
Another day another entry.
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my entry for today!
The quality of life this form of farming allows for is what I learned about.
Well, I could go for a great cup of coffee! So glad to know about this web site — thanks!
i learned they Work closely with organizations promoting positive change including the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign, Save Our Wild Salmon, Global Partnerships, Cafe Femenino Foundation and many other local and national non-profits.
im a subscriber
I’d love to try the Fair Trade cocoa powder.
Thanks!