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HOW ABOUT A NICE CUP OF JUNGLE PRESERVATION?
Capulin coffee produces a great brew -- and helps preserve the world's mountain jungles.
Are you drinking away the world's mountain jungles? If you bought your coffee at the grocery store, odds are it's not only an inferior
blend, but one grown using environmentally damaging farm practices.
For centuries, coffee was "shade grown" beneath the canopies of jungles like that surrounding Tecuitata, a village in Mexico's Nayarit
state, producing the superior flavor that made a cup one of life's great pleasures.
In recent years, however, demand has moved large coffee producers to develop less flavorful hybrids that can be intensively farmed under the open sun -- and that, in turn, has moved smaller
native producers to ravage their own locales in an attempt to keep production up and prices down.
Enter Daniel Fourwinds and Capulin Coffee.
"I'll put my coffee up against the major brands any time," says Fourwinds. "Capulin is shade grown and sun dried. That's the most
environmentally responsible way to produce a good coffee -- and it also results in a drink that is superior in every way."
Additionally, says Fourwinds, Capulin's methods put money directly into the pockets of native growers, encouraging them to steward the jungle that makes their livelihood possible.
"Capulin provides a natural, shade grown, chemical free, fully ripe traditionally sun dried and hand processed Arabica coffee, while
more than doubling the income of the peasant farmers -- a claim that no other coffee company in America can make."
At present Fourwinds, through the Tree of Life Ministries Association, is raising funds to purchase facilities in the village of
Palapitas, bringing economic hope to the peasant population at a time when corporate dominance and an infestation of the coffee boring beetle have brought Tecuitata and other area villages close
to economic and environmental collapse.
"This is a village of folks who do not want to find themselves in the same dire straits as the people of Tecuitata, a situation which
appears imminent should we fail," says Fourwinds. "It is a paradise for birds and the best of Nature's diversity, and it's home to villagers who are desperately attempting to avoid falling into the grips of forest clearing for chemical-dependent mangos and bananas."
Your donation -- or your purchase of Capulin's products, which are surprisingly inexpensive -- isn't just environmentally responsible. It's
also one of the last ways to get a really good cup of coffee. Capulin is located on the web at www.capulin.com. More information on how to help with the Palapitas project is available at
http://www.capulin.com/capulinsupletter.html.
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