100% unblended, single origin, smooth, volcanic soil and shade grown mountain Ugandan coffee. Bugisu is a smooth coffee, rich, with balanced acidity, creaminess and a lingering nutty chocolate after taste.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Kawa Java at the Atlantic Station
Healthy Living and Family Edutainment & Fun
The Healthy Living provides education on health and wellness in the providing demonstrations and information about holistic practices, and products and services designed to promote healthy living. One’s personal and family well-being ties directly to their concern for the planet.
Family Edutainment & Fun provides a variety of
games and learning experiences for all ages.
This includes partner’s like Captain Planet
Foundation, Radio Disney, GPB, Recycle Michael
and IDBids.
Collections (Recycle and Reuse)
The Collections program provides education as well as a means for individuals to actively engage by bringing items for recycle and reuse. This year will include such things as ewaste, shredding and shoes. Additional elements will be added to bring greater exposure and involvement.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Kawa Java 2009
Kawa Java Served at the United Nations Annual Meeting- New York City, June 28-July 2, 2010
AMR/ Roundtable Breakfast July 2, 2010
UGANDA BUGISU AA
Kawa Java company founder, Nanziri Clark is a Ugandan born woman living in the US who takes great pride in her native country and remains very passionate and optimistic about business in Uganda. In 2009, Kawa Java was formed to import the best organic sustainable coffee to connoisseurs in the United States. The company pays a living wage that allows the farmers to put aside money for their children’s health, education, and farming.
EL SALVADOR
Finca Kilimanjaro is a coffee produced by an extraordinary El Salvadoran woman. In 2004 Aida Batlle was the first woman to win first place in the well known coffee competition called Cup of Excellence. Today Aida’s coffees are in demand around the world, she’s often quoted in the NY Times, CNN News, and other major media. The Cup of Excellence program was started in 1999, a project funded by the International Trade Center with the purpose of helping countries receive better prices for their specialty coffee.
NICARAQUA
Micro Loan Blend is a coffee brand owned by the Foundation for Women, an organization dedicated to serving impoverished women and those with disease by creating and funding microcredit programs globally and locally. Profits from the sale of the coffee help fund the organization’s grassroots movement to eliminate global poverty through microcredit. Micro Loan Blend features Las Hermanas, an all women's organic and fair trade certified coopera- tive in Nicaragua.
http://www.womenincoffee.org/
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Coffee Preparations 2009-10
- Blacks, Partly Blacks, Discoloured/Tany Oils,
- Insect Damaged, Pin Holes, Chalky Whites,
- Withered/Shrivelled/Floats,
- Badly Broken/Pulp Nipped,
- Unhulled Coffee, Extraneous Matter
Eastern African Fine Coffee Association
Cupping South American Coffees
Slide show of different coffee farming methods