Shade Grown Coffee

If you drink coffee and love birds, then you might as well drink bird friendly, shade grown coffee.

What is Shade Grown Coffee?

For more information about shade grown coffee, its benefits and contrasts with sun grown coffee, go to our bird friendly coffee page.

The below coffees are grown on plantations that are bird friendly. Thanksgiving Coffee uses verified shade grown coffee. This means that its CEO or the importer has personally inspected the farm to insure that the plants are properly grown in the shade. These coffees are also Certified Organic and Fair Trade Certified.

The "Song Bird Coffee" brand below is the result of a joint venture between the American Birding Association (ABA) and Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Fifteen cents from each package are donated to the ABA.
 

Costa Rican Shade Grown Coffee
This coffee is grown in the Terrazu region at altitudes above 1200 meters, in the shade using organic methods.

Its flavor is completely ?Costa Rican.? If you want to experience a classical Costa Rican coffee, with rich fruity tones and heavy body, mild in flavor but intense, with a nice smooth finish, try this one.

Guatemalan Shade Grown Coffee

This coffee is shade grown on steep volcanic slopes of the Northwestern Highlands of Guatemala by Maya Quiche coffee farmers.

Rich aroma complicated by smoky semi-sweet chocolate and caramel. The cup is simple but satisfying: very sweet, deep, roundly roasty. The real glory of this coffee is an extraordinarily long, lushly vibrant, deeply chocolaty finish." - The Coffee Review, November 2005.

Nicaraguan Shade Grown French Roast

From the Aranjuez community in Nicaragua. The village is located high in the northern mountains above the city of Matagalpa where the coffee is grown under rustic shade, and the farms are filled with birds, monkeys, jaguars and butterflies. Flycatchers, and several species of warblers are among the migratory guests.

This coffee is full-bodied, smoky, and intense.

Nicaraguan Shade Grown Medium Roast

This coffee comes from the SOPPEXCCA cooperative located in the department of Jinotega, Nicaragua. It is grown at an average altitude of 1000 meters above sea level, where the air is thin and the coffees mature slowly, creating intense flavors.

Fruity, nutty and chocolaty with hints of mango, plum and cranberry.

Panama Songbird Coffee

This Panama Coffee is from a private estate known as the Hartman Estate. This coffee came in 3rd in the 2001 Panama National Competition. The Hartmans are very habitat conscious and are avid birders. Supporting them supports the objectives of the American Birding Association and the goal of making great coffee from Panama commonly known.

Medium roast, light-bodied with mellow acidity and mild floral notes.

Decaffeinated Songbird Coffee

Produced by the small-scale family farmers of the CEPCO cooperative in Oaxaca, southern Mexico.

Our Fair Trade partnership with this cooperative has provided above market prices and enabled the creation of micro-credit programs, schools, and training programs focused on quality improvement.

Rich, with a cinnamon sweetness hinting of the satisfying and complex flavors of Mexican-style hot chocolate. Song Bird Decaf is water-processed.
 

Drink shade grown coffee and create songbird habitat...An even better way to start your mornings!

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