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 Mash Café Restaurant - Fair Trade Organic Coffee Chocolate and Tea |
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FAIR TRADE
Products that have been certified Fair Trade guarantee producers a fair price for their product and an investment in the local community. The Fair Trade agreement creates a direct relationship with farmer and ensures workers are paid a decent wage.
A premium is paid for investment in projects that benefit families, the local community and the environment. At Mash Café all our coffee, chocolate and tea are fair trade.
Our unique blend of espresso coffee beans are sourced from East Timour. Mash was the first café to ONLY serve fair trade coffee in the Blue Mountains.
Find out more at www.fairtrade.org.uk www.fta.org.au
Fair Trade products available for purchase at Mash
| Tradewinds Organic Fair Trade Espresso 250gr |
$10.50 |
| Cocola Chocolate Bars in Hazelnut, Orange, Creamy Milk & Rich Dark flavours 100g |
$6.90 |
| Fair Trade Leaf Teas in black or green leaf tea blends 100gr |
$6.90 |
The Story of East Timor Fair Trade Coffee
The coffee is grown by 17 000 co op members with 94 254 family dependants in 600 farmer groups with democratically elected leaders. Nearly 4000 new jobs were created in 2001.
The coffee cherries are collected and then transfported and sold to one of 260 rural buying stations. These rural buying stations provide employment for 500 East Timorese and a further 100 locals own and operate transport trucks to take the cherries to the wet plant factories.
There are four 'wet processing' factories used to process the coffee cherries and these employ 2050 people. There are a further 2 dry processing factories employing another 450 people.
The coffee cherries are picked and carried to the wet plant and sold by the farmer at the factory gate. The cherries are then sorted and processed which includes pulping, fermenting and washing the beans before they are sun dried in large fields and processed to green coffee prior to being shipped to Australia.
Once in Australian Trade Winds roast the coffee and package and ship it to Mash Café.
The benefits for those involved in Fair Trade Coffee Co Operatives include the provision of health care. To date there are 3 established clinics and a further plan for 14 new facilities. The farmer also benefits from a higher price for his coffee cherries.
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| Sorting of coffee cherries |
Sorting of coffee cherries |
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| Sun drying of beans |
Pulping of coffee cherries |
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| Wet processing of coffee cherries |
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