Shade Grown Coffee

If you drink coffee and love birds, then you might as well drink shade grown coffee which benefits birds.

What is Shade Grown Coffee?

For more information about shade grown coffee,Shade Grown Coffee Farm its benefits and contrasts with sun grown coffee, go to our Bird Friendly Coffee page. Basically shade grown coffee benefits birds because it provides far better habitat than sun-grown monoculture coffee plantations. On a shade grown coffee farm, there is structural plant diversity that provides food and shelter, not only for bird species, but for many other organisms, including mammals, reptiles and insects.

Shade Grown Doesn't Automatically Mean Bird Friendly® Coffee

Just because a package of coffee is labeled as "ShadeSongbird Coffee Grown" doesn't necessarily mean is good for the environment or the birds. Some shade grown coffee is grown in the shade of non-native treesBird Friendly Coffee that don't attract native birds or grown on farms that rely on pesticides. So look for the Bird Friendly® seal (from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center of the National Zoo), or do some research on your own to find out where your shade grown coffee is actually grown. 

American Birding Association Songbird Coffee

Song Bird Coffee is a shade-grown coffee brand and is the result of a joint venture between the American Birding Association (ABA)Songbird Coffee and Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Fifteen cents from each package are donated to the ABA. Similar to Bird Friendly® coffees, 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. The Thanksgiving Coffee Company has been a socially and environmentally aware coffee producer for over 34 years.

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

Additional Information

More about Bird Friendly Coffee

Shade Grown Coffee Info from the Smithsonian

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