As part of the Green Mountain Ambassadorship I get to giveaway some great things every once in a while for my readers to try. This month not only am I giving away a box of Fair Trade Certified™ Pumpkin Spice but I’m giving away a bright orange Mini Plus Brewing System to go along with it as part of National Fair Trade month and the Green Mountain Coffee Great Coffee, Good Vibes Pass It On Campaign. I also get to share some great information about Fair Trade certification that I hope you will find interesting.
Fair Trade Certified™
Did you know that for more than a decade, Green Mountain Coffee® has been a leader in the fair trade movement, providing a better cup of coffee to consumers and a better quality of life for coffee farmers?
By offering coffee farmers a fair price for their beans they are able to invest in crops, their communities, and their futures. When coffee farmers invest into their crops you, as the consumer, can taste it in your morning cup of Joe. Green Mountain Coffee and musicians Grace Potter and Michael Franti are celebrating National Fair Trade Month with “Great Coffee, Good Vibes, Pass It On” – “an awareness campaign that celebrates the good vibes of fair trade through free concerts and an opportunity to win a trip to source. As part of the campaign, Grace and Michael were invited to Colombia and Sumatra respectively, to get a first-hand look at how Fair Trade makes a difference in the lives of coffee farmers – and in the coffee you’re drinking.”
You can learn more about Michael and Grace’s adventure on Green Mountain Coffee’s Facebook page.
Keurig & K-Cup Packs Giveaway
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Disclosure: Green Mountain is providing the prizes for this program at no cost to me and has provided me with Fair Trade Certified K-Cup packs. I am a K-Cup Ambassador.
that a cup of coffee can make such an impact! From helping education to public aid projects, your coffee can impact way more than your morning commute.
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I learned your coffee can impact way more than your morning commute.
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Fair trade is the up and coming way to do your part for farmers. Always look for Fair Trade items…it is the only fair thing to do.
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I learned that Fair Trade helps the communty A LOT!
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I learned that Fair Trade makes a better cup of coffee by helping to develope the coffee and also helps make a change towards a better way of life.
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Potatoes grow by coffee
That they grow potatoes with the coffee…who knew?!
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I learned about many things that Fair Trade does to help the communites and families of the coffee farmers. It is amazing that they help build road, get kids in school and help the farmers receive proper pay and help when they are sick
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I learned Fair Trade helps out farmers and their communities.
I learned that by purchasing Fair Trade coffee, I’m helping farmers afford insurance and send their kids to school. Amazing stuff!
that potatoes grow along side coffee, very very cool
I learned that fair trade makes a point to help the local community.
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potatoes grow along side the coffeee
Purchasing Green Mountain coffee provides fair trade wages to coffee farmers and workers…better wages, insurace, better houses and roads in their villages, children can go to schools. A much better life for all.
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Potatoes grow alongside the coffee
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Fair trade provides insurance for farmers. Thanks.
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Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages
i learned about the importance of fair trade especially to children.
That country farming is hard work!
Also, potatoes grow alongside the coffee. 🙂
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The showed potatoes growing
how important fair trade is to these people, allowing them to send their children to school
I learned that Fairtrade helps coffee farmers make the most money they can,so they can better their families lives…
Potatoes grow along side of the coffee…
Fair trade is important
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Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages
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i learned that potatoes grow with the coffee.
i learned that they build roads and villages.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
Fair trade helps the farmers which helps the community.
it showed how fair trade can change people’s lives for the better.
potatoes beside the coffee
Fair Trade is a great help to farmers and values education
Fair trade helps build rods!
lol, not rods roads!
potatoes are what they grow with coffee.
Potatoes grow with coffee
Fair Trade helps kids and school
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
Fair trade helps farmers and the community.
that fairtrade helps the coffee farmers have insurance and their kids can go to school
potatoes grow along side coffee
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
I learned that buying fair trade items can have a bigger impact that I had thought before
I learned that Fair Trade helps the communty
who knew potatoes and coffee are like siblings!
fait trade helps the community
Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages
potatoes grow alongside
Fair trade allows farmers to improve their communities and send their children to school.
Potatoes grow along side of the coffee.
I never knew that potatoes grow with coffee. I wonder if they are supercharged!
I learned that Fair Trade helps the farmers and the community.
potatoes grow along side the coffee
i learned fair trade makes a better cup of coffee
they have potatoes growing along side the coffee
I learned that Fair Trade helps the community growth, helping them build villages,roads. It enables the children to go to schools. Has insurance for the farmers and families incase they get injured.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
fair trade helps the community.
i learned just how much fair trade helps those communities
potatoes grow with the coffee.
I learned that Fair Trade provides insurance for farmers.
potatoes grow along side the coffee!
Fair trade helps kids go to school.
fairtrade helps them financially so that they can send their children to schools
potatoes grow alongside the coffee
the fairtrade farmers help communities and allowing kids to go to school. awesome!
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they also help their local communities
that coffee farming is hard work
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee
I learned a lot about fair trade. Very informative
Potatoes grow along side the coffee
Fair Trade helps the community and the farmers.
Potatoes grow along side coffee.
potatoes grow alongside the coffee
Purchasing fair trade coffee helps the farmers send kids to school.
Potatoes along side the coffee
Potatoes grow along the side.
Not only are you getting a great tasting coffee but you are improving the life of those who make the coffee. Fair Trade empowers the farmers to grow financially. Villages grow, children can go to school and farmers can make a fair living. Through education the farmers will learn techniques to grow their coffee plants so as to better the crop and make more money. I am proud to buy Fair Trade coffee because of they way they better the people who provide me with my morning pickmeup!
Fair Trade pricing means that more kids get to go to school.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
I learned that potatoes grow near the coffee beans!
i learned how much these people benefit from fair trade- allowing their kids to attend school
potatoes are grown along side of coffee.
fair trade help farmers and also the community.
I learned that potatoes are grown with coffee beans.
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potatoes grow along with the coffee.
I learned that fair trade provides insurance for farmers
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They had potatoes growing with the coffee
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potatoes grow by coffee
Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages.
I learned that fair trade provides insurance for farmers.
I learned that fair trade enables the community to develop better roads and schools for the children.
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potatoes grow next to coffee
Fair trade helps children go to school!!
Fair Trade helps out with kids and community. Potatoes grow along side coffee.
Contributing a better quality of life for farmers as well a a better cup of coffee for ourselves. Off topic but Ironically coffee helps reduce headaches yet potatoes trigger migraines for me yet they are growing side by side.
taters grow along side!
Potatoes grow along side the coffee in the video above
I learned that fair trade helps the local economies and communities grow, like helping fund education 🙂
potatoes and coffee grow together
potatoes grow alongside the coffee
Potatoes grow with the coffee:-)
fair trade helps out the community and that potatos grow beside the coffee ..interesting
I learned that Fairtrade helps the farming communities, and the children are able to go to schools.
Now I know why everyone was leaving 2 comments! LOL..potatoes grow along with the coffee.
It’s potatoes that grow along side of the coffee.
Fair trade benefits the community where the coffee is grown, building roads, and giving parents the opportunity to send their kids to school.
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee.
Fair trade helps farmers.
fair trade grows communities and potatoes grow by the coffee
I learned that fair trade helps builds roads and scholls for children.
Fair Trade helps farmers send their children to school 🙂
Yummy Potatoes grow beside Coffee.
Potatoes grow along side Coffee?! 🙂
Fair Trade helps send kids to school 🙂
That potatoes grow alongside the coffee and also it helps to build roads.
helps provide $ for schools
Fair trade is the best for farmers.
I learned that the farmers are greatly helped by growing the coffee beans and they are a great help to the growers in learning diff flavors.
I learned that in Sumatra they grow potatoes with their coffee.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Potatoes grow with the coffee
Fair trade is better for communities and is grown more sustainably, even alongside potatoes
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They grow potatoes next to the coffee!
I learned that coffee farming is hard work and that Fair Trade provides a better life for coffee farmers.
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee
Potatoes grow alongside coffee!
Buying fair trade coffee helps the farmers!
Fair Trade provides insurance for farmers and their families if they should get hurt.
Potatoes and coffee grow together.
Love fairtrade coffees and love what they do for children!
potatoes grow with the coffee….who knew!!!
Coffee is what makes me or breaks me!! I need it everyday of my life!
I learned that Fair Trade does a lot to help others, including children and communities. And I thought it was interesting that coffee beans and potatoes grow side by side!
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee!
Fair Trade protects farmers (insurance) if they were to get hurt and also if their families were to get sick
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potatoes grow next to the coffee
Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages and its a good thing for everyone!
Fair Trade workers make enough money so that they can send their children to school.
Didn’t know that potatoes grew along side coffee!
Potatoes grow next to the coffee.
I learned that Fair Trade helps in providing guidance and direction.
Potatoes grow with the coffee
Fair trade helps farmers.
potatoes grow along side the coffee
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Potatoes grow alongside coffee.
I learned that fair trade is beneficial to communities.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee.
I learned that they grow potatoes alongside the coffee
That Fair Trade is absolutely amazing (that’s why I buy as often as I can). They help in so many ways (farmers, financially, etc). Love Fair Trade!!
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee
I learned that I need to make responsible choices when I choose my coffee.
potatoes grow along with coffee
Potatoes grow alongside coffee!
I learned that Grace Potter personally visited the coffee farmers and what a difference Fair Trade makes to these folks.
Potatoes grow with coffee.
Fair trade helps local economies and communities
Fair trade provides assurance/insurance for farmers.
Potatoes grow alongside of the coffee.
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By purchasing Fair Trade Coffee we are providing a better life for the farmers.
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not only is it fair trade – it is helping the community all around them
potatoes grow next to the coffee
Fair trade provides insurance for the farmers if they get hurt.
I learned how Fair Trade helps the local communities, which I believe is great. Potatoes grow next to the coffee.
Fair trade allows them to send their children to school
Fair Trade brings enough money into the communities to build roads and schools. It also helps farmers to create better coffee blends.
Potatoes grow with the coffee
fair trade helps the kids the farmers and builds roads
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I did not know fair trade helps kids go to school
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Potatoes grow with the coffee and I learned that it helps kids go to school!
I learned how Fair Trade contributes – especially sending kids to school
It is potatoes baby!
Potatoes grow along side of the coffee.
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i saw that fair trade makes a huge difference in a number of ways.
next to the coffee grows potatoes
Fair Trade helps farmers earn a fair wage and contributes to the community. Farmers are also educated about sustainable farming methods that are good for the environment.
fair trade makes a huge impact – on us, on the community, on the farmers
potatoes grow alongside the coffee
I just learned that Fairtrade helps the farming communities. That’s great!
Looks like potatoes grow next to them
potatoes grow with coffee
Learned that by purchasing fair trade coffee it helps the farmers to provide a better life for their families, such as education for their children and helps to build roads and villages for their communities. Liked the video very much.
I learned that Fair Trade helps the farmers improve both their lives and their product….which is a win-win for everyone
Potatoes grow with the coffee
Potatoes grow along side the coffee.I just learned that Fairtrade helps the farming communities
I love green mountain and love that they give back!
potatoes grown next to the coffee!
Fair trade equals fair pay for farmers which benefits them & their communities.
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I learned a lot more about fair trade & how much it helps communities.
Potatoes grow there!
I learned how Fair Trade works, and why it is good to look for it when purchasing coffee and a lot of other goods.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
I am just so impressed with the interaction of the growers with the fairtrade folks. What an amazing co-op
I learned that it helps send kids to school
I didn’t know anything about “Fair Trade” so the whole video was something new for me to learn. Love it!
Potatoes grow alongside coffee. Who knew?
They practice companion planting, potatoes with coffee.
Fair trade helps the community and local schools.
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Potatoes grow along the side of the coffee
Fair Trade helps build roads.
Fair trade provides insurance for farmers and their families.
They help send children to school.
Potatoes grow beside coffee
Potatoes grow near coffee
Fair trade help farmers and the community.
I learned that Fair Trade helps build villages and roads!
Fair Trade provides insurance in case family members get sick
Potatoes grown alongside coffee
Fair trade helps to build roads
I try to buy fair trade in as many products as I can. What’s good for the environment is good for people. Is good for growth and for long term sustainability.
Fair trade is social good.
potatoes grow along side the coffee.
Fair trade allows more children to go to school
I learned that they grow potatoes with the coffee! It all works together…
Fair trade is good for farmers
I learned that coffee farming is hard work (at least according to Michael Franti).
I learned how important the fair trade practice is for supporting the farmers and children’s educations.
i learned about fair trade, i will be looking for the fair trade marking on packages from now on
Fair trade helps the farmers get a decent wage and educate their children
I like that they are making a better life for the farmers
Fair trade allows farmers to send their kids to school
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee
Coffee farming is hard work. I thought machines did it. lol
fair trade insures its workers
potatoes grow along side the coffee
I didn’t realize how much Fair Trade helps the infrastructure of the growing communities!
Potatoes grow along side of the coffee.
Fair trade gives the farmer’s more money for their product, so they have a better way of life.
I knew fair trade was good but I didn’t realize just how much of an impact it had. It was a nice little video to watch!
Potatoes grow next to the coffee
Fair trade helps to send kids to school
learned fair trade practices are supporting the farmers and kids educations
Fair Trade makes for a better life for the farmers including allowing them to educate their children… great!
Fair trade is more beneficial to farmers and their community.
Potatoes. Weird. Is this a new question? I used potatoes as my other comment. lol
I learned that fair trade can help make a better life for coffee farmers and their villages, including the building of schools. Thanks!
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee in the Sumatran village in the video.
fair trade helps farmers
I watched the video and learned that coffee farming is very hard work but the benefits of Fair Trade are making it more worthwhile.
Potatoes can grow with coffee.
Fair trade helps educate children.
Potatos grow alongside of coffee
I watched the video and felt really moved when she said that from her angle this wasn’t an industry, but was a community of people. That makes it so real, and is a good reminder of why fair trade is important.
I learned that fair trade provides insurance for farmers.
Fair trade helpd the farmers, their families and the community have a better life. Jobs, insurance etc. Also the potatoes were growing withthe coffee.
Fair Trade helps build roads and provides insurance to the farmers.
Fair trade makes a better life for the community
Fair trade is awesome! Who knew coffee could help so many people.
learned that Fair Trade helps the communty
never heard of fair trade. thanks
fair trade helps education
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the fair trade help all the people in these towns
I learned that Michael Franti is tall. For real. I didn’t know this.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee
Fair trade helps growers send their kids to school. Thanks fdor the giveaway.
Fair trade provides insurance to farmers if they get hurt.
Potatoes grow besides the coffee.
That’s so awesome that they provide insurance for farmers who are injured/hurt. what a rewarding enterprise.
Wait potatoes grow next to them that is crazy
They put a lot of work into getting us the coffee that we love!
Fair trade helps the community
Fair trade helps send kids to school!
Potatoes grow along side the coffee!
Fair Trade allows for the building roads and villages.
I learned that potatoes grow near coffee.
Fair trade is a blessing to farmers and the community. Thanks for the education on this…it was new to me!
I have anew respect for fair trade. It is wonderful that the villages can improve so much
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Fair trade helps the whole community.
potato grows along side of coffee
potatoes grow along side of coffee
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Fair trade allows for insurance for the farmers is what I learned from the video =)
Potatoes is what grows along side the coffee =)
Thank you for a great giveaway
A lot of things to learn in the video! All of it was super interesting to know though. I never knew about coffee growing alongside potatoes, and I never realized how hard for work being a coffee farmer was!!
potatoes grow alongside coffee!
I never knew about the potatoes growing along with the coffee. Two for one!
Fair trade helps by offering insurance for the farmers and their families.
Potatoes grow alongside of the coffee.
Potatoes grow with the coffee
Last one, Potatoes!
Potatoes grow along side the coffee
Fair Trade helps the farmers, the community and the kids. Oh, and potatoes grow alongside the coffee lol!
Fair Trade provides insurance for farmers.
Potatoes grow along side of the coffee.
Fair trade is beneficial for the farmer and his community.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee!
I learned tht coffee farming is hard work..by purchasing fair trade you are making a better life for farmers
Everything works together. Potatoes grow with the coffee.
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I learned potatoes grow alongside coffee!!
I also learned fair trade helps kids go to school
Fair Trade allows them to build roads and school for the villages. I always buy fair trade products!
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Fair trade means the kids can go to school, which I think we can all agree is a good thing. 🙂
Potatoes grow alongside the coffee.
Fair trade makes a better coffee.
Potatoes grow along with coffee.
Fair trade helps farmers.
I think that it is wonderful that Fair Trade is sponsoring by setting up school for the kids and also the hard work involved making great coffee.
The potatoes grows along side on the coffee.
Fair Trade helps farmers and the community. You should buy only Fair Trade Coffee.
Potatoes grow alongside coffee.
What a wonderful organization! Building community is so important.
Understanding now that buying fair trade coffee has a huge positive impact on the farmers and their community!!
potatoes and coffee grow together
I learned that potato’s are great with coffee!
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They grow potatoes alongside the coffee.
i learned that if you buy fair trade you are making a better life for farmers
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Fair Trade is about change for the coffee farmers.
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Fair Trade is the way to go
That potatoes grow next to the coffee
potatoes grows next to coffee
fair trade provide insurance to the farmers
Fair trade seems like a good deal…
I like the mini a lot
potatoes grow alongside the coffee
Fair trade provides insurance for the workers
Potatoes grow with the coffee
I learned that potatoes and coffee grow together!
Fair Trade helps farmers and schools.
potatoes grow alongside coffee
Potatoes are grown alongside the coffee!
Fair Trade is helpful and good to the farmers!
I learned that they grow potatoes next to the coffee beans.
Fair trade is helping the coffee farmers and their families.
never knew fair trade was so important and why!
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Fair trade helps local economies and communities
Potato’s grow along side the coffee
Fair trade helps kids go to school
Potatoes are grown alongside the coffee
Fair trade helps contribute to a better quality of life for farmers.
I learned how much Fair Trade helps out the community…
Fair trade helps children go to school.
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I really want this.
Fair Trade helps the farmers
I learned that buying fair trade coffees help the communities the coffee comes from. I think any extra cost is worth it.
Fair Trade helps provide insurance for farmers
Potatoes grow along side the coffee
I learned that Fair Trade helps the farmers.
Potatoes grow along side the coffee.
I learned they they grow the potatoes with the coffee
Fair trade helps kids go to school
I learn that fair trade is helping the coffee farmers getting the best pay they can get
I ;earned Fair trade helps the community