We buy
Counter Culture Coffee at our local coffee shop, but they also sell online. They have an independently certified rating called "Direct Trade Certification", which is actually stricter than Fair Trade. You can read about it on their website. The quality is excellent---our friend who was a regional barista champion and who owns two highly successful high end coffee shops in Washington, DC (and opening a third) uses and sells these beans.
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Adding that not all of their coffees are designated with the Direct Trade Certification, so you do need to check. It looks like many/most are... They also have many that are Organic certified... Some are both; some are one or the other.
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ANDREA
GLORY be to God for dappled things---
...
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
GERARD MANLY HOPKINS