Oregon Producer: Café Mam
Oregon roastery, Café Mam (say "mom") is grown by fair trade cooperatives of native Maya farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. It is 100% organic, fair trade certified, shade-grown, high altitude, arabica coffee.
Café Mam has initiated a Climate Change Mitigation Fund to be a resource for the farmers who supply their coffee. This is in response to the critical issues coffee farmers in Chiapas are facing as a result of climate change. For every pound of coffee they purchase, they contribute an additional 10¢ to be used by the co-ops to combat climate change. This fund has been used in many productive ways including:
Large-scale shade and fruit tree planting that help maintain farming microclimates and for carbon sequestration.
Building composting facilities (“bio-fabricas”) to supply compost to farming communities.
Retrofitting cooperative processing and administration buildings to clean solar energy.
Planting ground cover for improved soil health and erosion control.
Funding educational programs for rural farming communities focused on instilling a culture of protection and conservation of natural resources.
Café Mam started the fund in 2019, and with this year's crop, it reached $232,000 in funding. As a company committed to environmental causes, they intend to continue this fund going forward for all of our coffee purchases. Their hope is to be a resource for small parcel farmers and provide them with more opportunities to implement solutions that will work for them in a rapidly changing climate. None of these worthy projects would be funded without their customers. Thank you for making this work possible!
You can find Café Mam coffee (Italian Roast, Tango Blend, Viennese Blend) at The Food Co-op in the bulk department and is currently on sale through Nov 14, 2023.
Learn more by visiting their website at: https://cafemam.com/ and follow them on Instagram @cafemamorganiccoffee.
