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Brewing Market is working closely with Agros International to raise funds to help poor Nicaraguan coffee farmers to buy coffee plant seedlings.  By adding just 10 cents to your purchase, you can help us change the lives of those who help supply your daily cup of brew.

For more information about the issues that coffee farmers and their families face every year in a period known as “The Thin Months” visit After the Harvest and watch their newly released film, narrated by Susan Sarandon.

 

 

 

 

Beans and Bridges Trip to Nicaragua, October, 2011

Our trip to visit three of the Agros coffee growing villages in the Matagalpa region in Nicaragua was an incredible experience. Along with Artine and Sydney Yapoujian, Owners, we were able to take three of our staff members – Jamie, Kaleen, and Jared. We visited El Eden, Tierra Nueva, and Nueva Esperanza, where we were greeted in the highest of fashion with music and dancing! These villagers, who were once the poorest of the poor, the coffee pickers and migrant workers who existed on less then a dollar a day, have been given the chance to own their own land by Agros International, and change their destinies. Our efforts of fund raising through our five coffee shops last year, which was matched once by the Brewing Market, and again by an anonymous donor, resulted in our being able to give Agros over $15,000 in aid. This money is being used to help the farmers buy new coffee plant seedlings as well as establish a coffee production training program, which the Brewing Market owner, Artine Yapoujian, has been asked to be an intimate part of developing.

The coffee farmers we are establishing relationships with in these three villages demonstrated their enormous thanks to us, and to you, our customers, in the most beautiful way during our visit. We hope that on trips in the future that we will be able to take like minded customers to see the work that is being done to eradicate poverty in the lives of these families, and to find new ways to connect with those who make our livelihoods, and our morning cup of luxury, possible.”