Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: Americus Georgia, Community Caravan, Community Events, Fair Trade Coffee, South Georgia
Sister Maureen Jerkowski and friends at Maya Vinic Cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico
As this newsletter arrives to your inbox, Café Campesino is preparing to be honored as Small Business of the Year by the Americus-Sumter County Chamber of Commerce. The Feb. 5th event will include a dinner and ceremony at South Georgia Tech’s John M. Pope Center to honor some local businesses including our friends at Koinonia Farm, Agri-Business of the Year. A “thank you” to our Chamber and to our local community for their continued support and “congratulations” to Koinonia for their excellent work! Read more about this great honor in next month’s feature article.
Now we take this opportunity to introduce to you a partner in the global community effort to bring dignity to all workers and their families. Centro Mujeres de la Esperanza (Center for Women of Hope) is a multicultural and faith-based community of women in the geographical region of El Paso, TX, southern New Mexico, and Juarez, Mexico. For the last 15 years, this organization has been working to transform structures that oppress women and their families at local, national and international levels and to raise awareness of these issues. One of the ways they accomplish this is to promote and sell a variety of Fair Trade products, including Café Campesino coffee; in doing this, they have become the hub in El Paso for churches, businesses, and individuals interested in supporting the Fair Trade Movement. These coffee sales are also made in conjunction with and support another leader in “fair trading”, Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Under the direction of Sister Maureen Jerkowski, Centro Mujeres actively pursues living a life of service and compassion, of education and empowerment, of dignity and justice for all. We’re so thankful for their good work.
Maureen shared with us about a recent trip that she and others made to visit one of our coffee partners (and theirs) – Maya Vinic Cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico. She told us of their time spent with a survivor of the December 22, 1997, event known as “The Acteal Massacre”. This person recounted the horrid tale of the government-sponsored assassination of 45 men, women (4 of whom were pregnant), and children who had gathered at a Catholic chapel to pray. Their gathering was a peaceful response to the ongoing conflict between the indigenous population that simply wanted the right to fairly benefit from the natural resources of their homeland and the national government who continued to oppress them and deny them these rights. About a year and half later, again in a non-violent act and through the strong will of the people, the Maya Vinic coffee cooperative was officially formed. The cooperative remains true to its roots and continues to produce wonderful coffee for our enjoyment and their livelihood.
The Chiapas region of Mexico has long been recognized as a producer of high quality coffee beans and the fruits of their labor remain a favorite with many java lovers across the globe.
As our special for this month of February, we are happy to offer superb coffee grown in the highlands of northwestern Chiapas, roasted here in Americus, Georgia, and then delivered to you. Enjoy this sweet, smooth, balanced cup that is lightly acidic with nutty and chocolaty flavor at 10% off any size bag. Enter code mexfeb9 during checkout to receive this special price. Read More about Maya Vinic in this month’s spotlight.
Looking ahead:
-The 6th Annual Sustainable Business Day event will be held at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Feb. 12th. Once again, we’ll be serving coffee to those in attendance and showing our support for and dedication to sustainable, enviro-friendly business practices. Our presence is yet another reminder to our state legislators that we, as Georgians, need to be more mindful of how our day-to-day business operations affect the places we live. We hope you’ll join us in considering the ability and responsibility we all have to impact our environment in a positive way.
-As you may know, Café Campesino proudly partners with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) by donating a portion of profits from each designated CRS coffee or tea sale. ( http://www.crscafe.com/ ) While financial contributions are certainly essential to the program’s success, raising awareness of the issues facing those in disadvantaged economic circumstances is critical to making lasting changes in the way that everyone does business. One of the ways we stay connected in this journey towards “fair trade for all” is to collaborate with others who support CRS and the fair trade movement. Later this month, Feb. 27-28, friends will gather for the 3rd Annual CRS Fair Trade Weekend here in Americus, GA. Hosted by Koinonia Farm and Café Campesino, this weekend is slated to include a movie screening and discussion with Fair Trade experts as well as a day long workshop filled with the nuts and bolts of fair trade versus conventional trade, fair trade and our faith, and how to promote fair trade in our respective parishes and communities. We look forward to this informative time of fellowship as it invigorates and inspires us to consider and reconsider our effort in making trade fair and sustaining.
Looking back:
-Our first “Café Campesino presents…” event was a huge success. The café was at full capacity for both of Julia Easterlin’s performances as we were treated to the soulful sounds of this young and talented singer/songwriter/musician. What a great start for what we hope to establish as a regular occurrence here at our coffee house! A big “thank you” to Julia and all those in attendance. And special thanks to Patrick Owen, a talented local artist, who not only set up the sound system for the event but entertained with licks on his acoustic guitar.
-Jim & Margaret Favre gave us an excellent and informative slideshow presentation about their experiences from a recent trip to El Salvador as organizers and volunteers in a Fuller Center for Housing Blitz Build. The project week resulted in 16 houses at a site that will ultimately contain 50 houses for families in need of a simple, decent place to live. It’s always uplifting to see and hear about acts of kindness and service provided to folks in need.
Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009, Visit Our Archives | Tags: Americus, Community, Community Caravan, Community Events, Georgia, Happenings, Things to Do
Live Music at the Coffee House!
On Saturday January 17th at the Coffee House, from 7:30 to 10:30, Cafe Campesino will feature Julia Easterlin with a live music performance. The show will take place inside the coffee house with a special set-up, to make sure we keep the audience away from the cold!
Julia, lead soprano in the Grammy Jazz Ensembles, grew up in Georgia as a cousin of Bill and Lee Harris (must have been a rough life), and now lives in Boston, studying and performing at Berklee College of Music. She has a gift for spinning a contemporary confidence with impressive technical skills, and has her own creative and original presentation. CDs will be available at the show. For a preview of Julia’s hearty voice and its impressive range, check out any of the following links:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/juliaeasterlin
www.myspace.com/juliaeasterlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMoe_T6wZeA.
On December 17th, Cafe Campesino hosted a wonderful Open House, where over 200 people showed up for the annual event. Bill called the night a “Exceptional time of sharing coffee, food and fellowship, with an outstanding community turnout.” The record crowd enjoyed smoothie concoctions and simply celebrated the season. Thanks to all for your overwhelming support of your community coffeehouse!
Birthday Wishes
Fair Grounds wants to send out warm birthday wishes to the man with the vision, our friend and colleague, Bill Harris. January 19th is the big day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL!
Fuller Center Presentation on El Salvador Blitz Build
On Friday morning, Jan. 16, our friends, Jim and Margaret Favre, will stop by the Cafe for a couple of very important reasons: 1) their daily cups of coffee (thanks, Jim and Margaret, for your loyal patronage!) and 2) to educate and entertain us with stories and pictures from their recent trip to El Salvador. The Favres participated in a blitz build project sponsored by The Fuller Center for Housing (for whom they volunteer quite extensively) and we’re thrilled that they’re taking time to share their experiences and insights with us. As you may well know, Cafe Campesino roasts and sells coffee cultivated in El Salvador and we relish this opportunity to learn more about the country and the people that produce such a wonderful coffee.
Look out for next month’s “Caravan” and more great events involving the Americus and Fair Trade communities.
Keep an eye out for more Cafe Campesino Presents events in the future!!!
Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: ACOES, Cafe Campesino, Coffee, Coffee Shop, Contemplatives in Action, Fair Trade Coffee, Florida Diocese, Habitat for Humanity, koinonia, Newman Catholic Center, Organic Coffee, Prince of Peace, School of the Americas, SOA, SOA Watch, VOSH, WHINSEC, Young Ministries
So much going on, so let’s take that first sip…
When our good friends Don Rogelio Surano and Oscar Ortiz Montano from ACOES in El Salvador visited us in October, we delivered a box containing 100 pairs of new reading glasses for them to distribute to members of their coop. We recently received a lovely report and letter of thanks from them, learning that they not only had taken care of the needs of their immediate coffee coop, but had also taken the time and initiative to deliver an additional 60 or so pairs to members from their surrounding community. We acknowledge our friends at ACOES for their service to the community and reaffirm our feeling that it is an honor to be their trading partners and friends.
While we here at Cafe Campesino feel good about our small role in making this happen, the real thanks goes to Volunteer Optometric Service to Humanity (VOSH). VOSH volunteers Larry and Ruth Hauler along with Chrstine Smith took the time to assemble the reading glasses and get them to Cafe Campesino so that we could deliver them (and the necessary acuity/testing charts) to our friends from ACOES. VOSH has been going on eye missions in developing countries for 18 years, setting up clinics and seeing an average of 2500-3000 patients each week The people who undertake these missions are optometrists, opticians and lay people, who pay their own way and donate their time and skills to helping people who perhaps have never had a pair of glasses before. As of 2007, VOSH has helped over 200,000 patients in Mexico, Guatemala and Haiti. They have also been to Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba and St.Lucia. On behalf of our producer partners at ACOES and their surrounding community, Cafe Campesino thanks VOSH and Ruth, Larry and Christine, in particular, for helping us deliver the reading glasses. This is an example, albeit small, of the potential of Fair Trade, bringing people and resources together to make change where change is needed.
Click Here to read a PDF of the report from ACOES – definitely worth reading (it’s in Spanish, so if you don’t understand Spanish, that’s ok… the pictures and images included alone are worth it).
Prince of Peace Friends at Coffee House
On Saturday, November 1st a group of 25 or so youth and youth ministers from the Orlando, Florida Diocese traveled up to Americus to participate in the first ever “Youth Ministry Fair Trade Weekend.” The service retreat was put together by Prince of Peace Youth Minister Mike Buckler with support from our very own fundraising program coordinator Stephanie Bosse and long-standing amiga and supporter Simone Blanchard, Catholic Relief Services’ Southeast Program Officer. The group stayed with our friends at Koinonia, the birthplace of the Cotton Patch Gospels and Habitat For Humanity. On Saturday morning, they worked at Koinonia, picking up sticks and pulling out pecans from hiding spaces in gullies, something that the equipment there can’t do but is critical to pecan production. That evening, they joined Tripp at Café Campesino for an evening full of Fair Trade!
Stephanie Bosse described the evening as follows: “Cafe Campesino pulled together how our labor [at Koinonia that morning] allowed us to stand in solidarity with coffee growers around the world. Tripp Pomeroy helped us process our day by asking about how work that day had been for us. Was it tedious? Was it long, boring, monotonous? Then Tripp asked, did you do it for 12 hours? Sun-up to sun-down? Did you do the work on a steep incline high up in the mountains? Did you have to pick which sticks were ripe and which were not? Comparing our conditions to those of coffee farmers in mountain highlands definitely put our work, and our blessings, into proper perspective.
At one point during Tripp’s talk, youth minister Mike Buckler was struck by a new appreciation for Fair Trade. Mike asked all of us, “Do you understand what power you have? That just by purchasing Fair Trade coffee alone, you have the power to make real change? YOU have the POWER to save lives…” By choosing to purchase organically grown, Fair Trade coffee, WE have the POWER to answer Christ’s question of Peter, to love Christ as he asked the rock of our church…to feed his sheep!
On behalf of our producer partners and everyone here at Café Campesino, we want to thank this truly wonderful group of young people and their equally inspiring youth ministers for including Café Campesino in this most thought-provoking and empowering event; we look forward to the next one!
A big thanks to Geoffrey, Jeh, Bill, Dave, our friends from Koinonia, the Newman Catholic Center at Eastern Illinois University and from Contemplatives In Action in New Orleans who spent the weekend of November 22-23 in Columbus, Georgia where they served up tons of Café Campesino coffee to the thousands of students, people of faith, and human rights activists attending the annual vigil at the School of the Amercias. The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) is a grassroots movement that stands in solidarity with the people of Latin America to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to change what many believe is the oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. This marks the tenth year that Café Campesino has served coffee at the SOAW. Profits from the event go to SOAW.
Café Campesino is proud to announce that we have partnered with Contemplatives in Action, an urban ministry and retreat experience in New Orleans, to provide A Sign of Relief Blend. One of our favorite blends of Mexico Chiapas Full City, Sumatra Full City, and Nicaragua Dark Roast, proceeds from this blend support CIA and their continued efforts to build capacity with local non-profits in order to improve the lives of residents in a city still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its subsequent flooding. Experience A Sign of Relief and offer A Sign of Relief to others. Purchase your coffee here or contact Contemplatives in Action directly for ways you can be a CIA Agent in your community!
Our annual Open House is scheduled for December 11th. Please join us at 725 Spring Street from 5 to 9 pm for an evening full of coffee, espresso, hors d’oeuvres, holiday shopping, and, well, just a darn good time!
Holiday Schedule: Please note that Cafe Campesino will be closed on Thursday, December 25th for Christmas. The Coffee House will be open on Friday December 26th from 9 am to 4 pm. We have posted our order/delivery cut-off dates in this edition of Fair Grounds and on our blog, so be sure to get those orders in early to avoid running out of coffee or missing the opportunity to share the gift of Café Campesino Fair Trade coffee! On Thursday, January 1, 2009, the Coffee House will be open from 9 am to 4 pm, though the roastery will be closed.
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we wish you and your family happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!
Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: Coffee, Fair Trade, georgia organics, march of dimes, Organic, roasters
ACOES at Koinonia
With so much going on, let’s take that first sip…
Hosted by our friends at Ambex, a manufacturer of top notch roasting equipment, Maty de Barrios and Dave Campbell recently spent a weekend in Clearwater, FL at the GULF COAST ROASTERS GATHERING with a few dozen other roasters and industry experts from around the country to share thoughts on what we do.
Among the activities, Maty and Dave participated in several cupping exercises. They tasted several excellent coffee offerings (and a couple of different ones 
) in the continuing quest to improve their tasting skills. To that end, Maty and Dave, along with 30 or so others, also participated in a Sensory Skills Test given by the Coffee Quality Institute. This test is the first in a series of rigorous tests of knowledge and taste for certification in CQI’s Q Grader Program, another part of the ongoing effort to improve the quality of Cafe Campesino coffee from crop to cup. Congratulations to Dave as one of only two participants that passed this first test. (Dave also mentioned that he hit a bases loaded double in the 5th inning of the annual softball game that Saturday night. The three runs that scored put his team ahead and they went on to win the game. What a weekend for Dave!)
Maty tells us that the she enjoyed meeting the fun and knowledgeable people at the gathering. “[It was a] great learning experience and another one of the wonderful perks that come with being part of Café Campesino,” she says.
While in Clearwater, Maty and Dave had the opportunity to submit a sample of our newest coffee blend offering, Mocha Java Full City Roast. Several examples of this legendary blend were presented and cupped and we’re happy to say that our offering was well-received. We think that you will like it too, so we’re offering this scrumptious new taste at 10% off this month. Enjoy.
On Thursday, November 6th, Café Campesino will once again be serving up java at the annual MARCH OF DIMES SIGNATURE CHEF’S AUCTION, this time in Albany at the Hilton Garden Inn. Signature Chef’s Auctions are held in over 200 cities across the country. Last year, these events raised over $15 million to make sure that all babies are born healthy. This unique and fun dining experience – where top local chefs present their signature dishes in a tasting format – has raised more than $89 million for the March of Dimes since the first Chefs Auction was held in 1989. Café Campesino is delighted to be part of this important event.
During the weekend of November 21-23, Café Campesino will join thousands of students, people of faith and human rights activists in attending the annual vigil at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Georgia. The SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH (SOAW) is a grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to change what many believe is an oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. This will be the tenth year that Café Campesino serves coffee from Fair Trade farmers in countries that are directly affected by those trained at the school in order to raise funds for SOA Watch. Proceeds from the event will be donated to SOAW. To learn more about the SOA Watch, please visit www.soaw.org.
On Saturday, November 15th our very own coffee house manager Joe Johnston will take his show on the road to serve up Café Campesino at the 2008 Field of Greens at WHIPPOORWILL HOLLOW ORGANIC FARM IN WALNUT GROVE. This annual GEORGIA ORGANICS celebration of farm, food and fun runs from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Activities include:
o Chef demonstrations using the best in locally grown and organic food
o Delectable bites from restaurants, caterers and stores
o Farmers’ market with local organic fruits, berries, vegetables and flowers
o Art Fair featuring local artisans
o Gardening demonstrations
o Information on local green energy and recycling from area green businesses
o Childrens’ activities and family events such as pony rides, face painting, arts and crafts and more
o Raffles and prizes
Whippoorwill Hollow Organic Farm is a 74 acre certified organic family farm run by Andy and Hilda Byrd. The farm is located 35 miles east of Atlanta, in Walnut Grove. The cost is $3 for adults, or free with the purchase of food tickets. Children under 12 are admitted free. Proceeds will benefit local farmers and Slow Food. For more information, visit: www.fieldofgreensgeorgia.org.
Producer partners from ACOES in El Salvador capped off their visit to Americus with a meeting at the Fuller Center, a presentation for the Koinonia home schoolers, and of course, a night at the roastery. Those who turned out to the latter were treated to a wonderful music serenade and tasty samples of our Espresso Bean Bark, but more importantly a greater understanding of the challenges our producer partners face on a daily basis. Stay tuned next month for a more profound discussion on this important life topic.
Filed under: Coffee House Happenings!, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: americus coffee house, Coffee, Coffee House, coffee house special, coffee specials, fair trade organic coffee, south georgia coffee, special of the week
Buy two or more pounds of any coffee and get a free 12 oz. holiday latte.
Our delicious seasonal flavors include Peppermint Pattie, Gingerbread, Pumpkin Pie, and Candy Cane!
Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: Americus, Americus Georgia, Cafe Campesino, Chamber of Commerce, Coffee Club, Coffees, Community Events, Fair Trade Coffee, Fall Events, Friends, Jimmy Foglio, Tripp Pomeroy
![[left to right; County Commissioner Andrea P.F. Brooks, Mayor Barry Blount, Chamber Chair Sherrill House, Jason, Tripp, Bill, Joe, Chamber Pres. Alice Bolstridge]](http://cafecampesino.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/chamber-of-commerce.jpg "chamber-of-commerce")
{l to r; County Commissioner Andrea P.F. Brooks, Mayor Barry Blount, Chamber Chair Sherrill House, Jason, Tripp, Bill, Joe, Chamber President Alice Bolstridge}
‘A Taste of Sumter’ – On September 25th, our very own coffee house manager Joe Johnston and trusty barista Jason Foster set up shop at the 21st annual ‘A Taste of Sumter’, where they served up mucho café to our friends and neighbors on a beautifully cool Georgia fall evening. This local event, billed as the ‘meeting of the taste buds’ is held right here in the heart of Americus, alongside the historic Windsor Hotel (which, by the way, we recommend for anyone in the area). Thanks, Americus, for drinking Café Campesino!
Last Saturday, the 27th, two days after working ‘A Taste of Sumter’, Joe packed up and headed nine miles west to Plains, Georgia, home of former President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter. He spent the day amidst the wafting clouds of waffle cone fumes, serving up Café Campesino and talking fair trade at the town’s annual Peanut Festival.
From October 1-5, Tripp and Bill were up in Traverse City, Michigan, participating in Cooperative Coffees’ annual meeting, which was hosted by our great friends at Higher Grounds. This annual event brought together the coop’s now 24 members to discuss business and to plan for the future, as well as hear from some of our producer partners, including two representatives from our producer partner cooperative in El Salvador – Don Rogelio Surano Jimenez, the President of ACOES, and Oscar Ortiz Montano, a technical advisor to ACOES and researcher/facilitator for ASINDEC. Café Campesino is a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, a roaster-owned, green coffee importing cooperative that partners with small-scale coffee farmers to build direct, fair trade relationships.
We’re thrilled to announce that Don Rogelio and Oscar returned back to Americus with Tripp. On Monday evening, October 6th, the coffee house hosted an event with our visiting friends which included a presentation by them about what they do. Don and Oscar also visited Koinonia and hosted questions from the home school group.
Stay posted for more information and a detailed report on that highly educational event.
To read more about La Concordia, ASINDEC and ACOES, click here.
Cooperative Coffees AGM 2008
On Thursday, October 9th, Tripp, Don Rogelio, and Oscar will travel to Columbus, Georgia, where they will serve up Café Campesino java at the annual March of Dimes Signature Chefs Auction. Signature Chefs Auctions are held in over 200 cities across the country. Last year, these events raised over $15 million to make sure that all babies are born healthy. This unique and fun dining experience – where top local chefs present their signature dishes in a tasting format – has raised more than $89 million for the March of Dimes since the first Chefs Auction was held in 1989. Café Campesino is delighted to be part of this important fund and awareness-raising event and to have the opportunity to connect our good friends from El Salvador with the auction attendees who will be drinking their coffee… ahh, from crop to cup… bellisimo!
On the weekend of October 9-12, Geoffrey will be back Georgia-way, doin’ what he does so well… serving up Café Campesino at the 17th annual BRAG BikeFest in the City of LaGrange. This year’s ride weaves through the rolling, scenic terrain of Troup, Heard, and Meriwether counties, as well as rural Alabama. This will be the first time Georgia BikeFest has been held in LaGrange. To learn more about this year’s BikeFest, click here. And remember, folks, Café Campesino donates 10% of our proceeds from this event to the BRAG Dream Team… so drink up!
The week after BRAG, October 18-19, Geoffrey will be traveling to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to visit our friends, Earl and Frances Self Drennen, at Manna Grocery and Deli and partner with their top-notch staff to serve up Café Campesino at this year’s Kentuck Festival. The Kentuck Festival, nationally recognized for its quality and diversity, celebrates a variety of artistic styles ranging from folk to contemporary arts as well as traditional crafts. Find out more about the festival at Kentuck’s website.
On the weekend of October 25-26, Café Campesino production maestros Maty de Barrios & Dave Campbell will attend a two day training session hosted by Ambex Roasters (the manufacturer of our fine “bean cooker”) at their Gulf Coast Roasters October Gathering in Clearwater, FL. This training will include intensive sessions led by knowledgeable instructors in the areas of roasting (something we work on everyday so that we can deliver fresh, delicious coffee to your mug) as well as cupping (carefully tasting the coffee we sell to better discern the taste distinctions of our roasts in order to ensure that the roast procedures are achieving the expected results as laid out by our roast master, Lee Harris). Maty & Dave are looking forward to the learning experience and, who knows, maybe they’ll teach a thing or two to the other roasters during the fellowship of these two days. Be on the lookout for a post-trip report. We’ll be glad to share some thoughts on the experience in the continuing effort to supply you with great tasting, artisan roasted, 100% fair trade, organic coffee.
While Maty and Dave are honing their roasting knowledge and skills, Tripp will be heading just a bit further south to sample out Café Campesino and talk Fair Trade with our good friend and customer, Melinda Pensinger, at her L.A. Café & Coffee House in Lehigh Acres, Florida. Melinda’s café is the real thing, offering a genuine opportunity for community to gather… to learn more about the L.A. Café & Coffee house, visit: www.lacafecoffee.com or read our customer spotlight.
Filed under: Coffee House Happenings!
Our friends at Koinonia provide us with the most delicious datenut bread anywhere. Also added to our list of Koinonia treats is the delectable Dark Chocolate Bean Bark, delicious Café Campesino espresso beans covered in fair trade dark chocolate. Come in and pick up a 4 oz (1/4 pound) pack of this energized treat for yourself or as a gift.
The Coffee House is now featuring a 1 pound coffee special for $5.99! A different coffee every week for even less! Check the blog every Monday to find out the week’s special.
Café Campesino would like to welcome our newest barista, Kari Pinkard. Kari is an Americus native currently pursuing a nursing degree from Georgia Southwestern State University. Look for her when you come in for your morning cup of Café Campesino coffee!
Filed under: Coffee House Happenings! | Tags: Coffee House, Fair Trade, Organic
Folks, this is where you can check on the latest news and happenings at our coffee house… like, for example, the roll out of Marisol’s handmade empanadas and scheduled events! In the meantime though, here are the basics:
Our Location
Right here where we roast our coffee – at 725 Spring Street in Americus, Georgia
Our Hours
Monday-Friday: 7:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Look for expanded hours this Fall!
Our Menu
Fair Trade, Organic COFFEE… By-the-Cup, Bottomless Cup & French Press!
Espresso – Straight Up
Americano
Espresso Macchiato
Espresso con Panna
Cuban
Black Eyed Susan
Café Latte
Café Mocha
Cappuccino
FTO Hot Chocolate
FTO Hot Teas, Yerba Mates & Chais
Fair Trade, Organic Iced Tea (sweetened and unsweetened)
Bellagio Coffee Frappes – Dark Chocolate and Vanilla Bean
All Natural Fruit Smoothies… and more!
Munchies? You bet… selected fresh breads and the like from our friends at Koinonia, bagels, along with locally fresh baked muffins and cinnamon rolls.
Questions?
Call us at 229-924-2468 or email us at info at cafecampesino.com
Filed under: Community Caravan, Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009 | Tags: Americus, Coffee Club, Community, Fair Trade Coffee, koinonia
Folks from the Middle Flint chapter of the American Red Cross holding their new fundraising blend
Coffee House Update:
Well, a huge THANKS to the estimated 200+ folks who came to our August 16th Open House here at 725 Spring Street! And kudos to our coffee house staff who pulled off a truly festive, gluttonous and, yes, caffeinated event in fine, fine form! We are so grateful for the support of our community and are committed to Café Campesino’s continued evolution as Americus’ coffee gathering place! To help our customers stay current on all the happenings at the Coffee House – additions to the menu, exciting events and the like – we’ve added a section to our blog titled Coffee House Happenings. Stay tuned for what we promise to be a steady stream of newsworthy announcements from the Coffee House, like, for example, the upcoming addition of Marysol’s mouthwatering empanadas to our fare… mmmmmmgood… get in my belly!
Two weeks ago, first thing in the morning on August 21st, Café Campesino was visited by our friends from the Middle Flint Chapter of the American Red Cross to launch their very own Middle Flint Special Blend (aka Maty’s Blend). They will be using this delectable fair trade coffee blend of Ethiopia Sidamo Full City and Colombia Medium, which happens to be our special of the month, to raise sorely needed funding for the all-important work they do here in our own Sumter County and the surrounding counties of Dooley, Macon, Schley and Webster.
We’d like to take this opportunity to also congratulate Café Campesino loyal friend and supporter Marty McDonald on his appointment as chairman of the Middle Flint Chapter of the American Red Cross. Thank you Marty for all you do for Café Campesino and our great Southwest Georgia community!
Last Friday, August 22nd, David Campbell, Jimmy Foglio, and Tripp Pomeroy drove out to Koinonia Farm to celebrate the life of David Castle (1924-2008). David was a Steward at Koinonia, where he and his wonderful wife Ellie have lived and served for the past 10 years. The following is a link to the Koinonia website, where a lovely tribute to David has been posted. On behalf of everyone here at Café Campesino, we thank David for everything he did to leave this world a better place, and wish Ellie and the rest of the Castle family all the best.
On Wednesday, September 24th… the Americus-Sumter Chamber of Commerce will be at Café Campesino, with a very large pair of scissors, hosting the official Café Campesino Coffee House Ribbon Cutting. Anyone within a day’s drive should be here for the event, which runs from 11:00am – 12:00pm. Free coffee and samples of our baked treats will be in abundance… please join us!
From October 1-5 Tripp and Bill will be up in Traverse City, Michigan participating in Cooperative Coffees’ annual meeting, which is being hosted by our great friends at Higher Grounds. This annual event will bring together the coop’s now 24 members to discuss business, hear from four of our producer partners and plan for the future. Café Campesino is a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, a roaster-owned, green coffee importing cooperative that partners with small-scale coffee farmers to build direct, fair trade relationships.
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Check back for the latest events and promotions at our coffee house.
