Fair Grounds Newsletter from Cafe Campesino

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Fair Tradin' for the Holidays
Holiday Ordering Deadlines
Newsletter Special: Free Shipping!
Santa Anita Update
Looking Back on Another Great Fair Trade Year
Holiday Gift Bonanza
Fair Trade Partner: Guayakí's Mate Bevolution
Community Caravan and Staff Notes
Quote of the Month
Past Issues of Fair Grounds

Wow – the holidays are upon us (where did the fall go?). It's time to wrap up our seasonal shopping with a big bow and distribute presents to those near (or far) and dear to us. In this issue of Fair Grounds, we've got some great gift-giving suggestions. We've also got a summary of a wild and woolly 2006, a Fair Trade spotlight on Guayakí, a Santa Anita update, a Community Caravan and a holiday recipe in an issue that can best be described as a year-end extravaganza. Grab a mug of your favorite Fair Trade beverage, kick back and enjoy...

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Please Note: Café Campesino customers west of the Mississippi should place orders no later than Wednesday, December 13th to ensure that they are received by December 23rd; customers east of the Mississippi should place their orders no later than the 18th.

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Get your holiday shopping done early and save with Free Shipping on orders of $35 or more! Enter promotional code: freeshp6 when checking out or be sure to mention it if ordering by telephone. (Please note that the Newsletter Special only applies to retail orders)

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Thank you to all of you who so generously pitched in to help our friends of the Santa Anita community in Guatemala. To date, together, we have raised over $6,000 for the community, which they are currently using to harvest this year’s crop of Fair Trade, organic coffee. About $4,000 more and we will have met our goal of $10,000. Looking for a really unique, special gift to give this year? Consider a contribution to our friends in Santa Anita la Union.

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Between frantically roasting and packing orders during our busiest month, and tweaking our plans for the upcoming year; it is hard for us to stop, take a deep breath, and gaze into the rear view mirror. But while sitting around the dinner table at Tripp's house last night, we all agreed that it sure feels good to look back for a moment and smile. Another remarkable year is winding down here at Cafe Campesino and we are so grateful to all of you for your support and encouragement as our little coffee experiment continues to grow. So here is a list of a few of the accomplishments as well as the fun events and visits that we have been blessed with during the last year.

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2006 saw some neat additions to our Fair Trade product line-up. In addition to our broad selection of artisan - roasted - to - order Fair Trade, organic coffees (try to say that ten times really fast), we’re thrilled to offer Guayakí organic, rainforest-grown, fairly traded yerba mate (accent on the e). Not sure what all the hubbub about this yerba mate stuff is about? Read about the good work our friends at Guayakí are doing and learn about their fabulous yerba mate, a beverage made from the leaves and stems of a powerful rainforest tree, native to the subtropical rainforests of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

Whether you’re looking for gifts for family and friends or for an easy answer to your organization’s “B2B” holiday gift needs, read on to learn what Café Campesino has to offer for the 2006 holiday season!

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Last March, we announced our new relationship with Guayakí and the introduction of their fabulous certified-organic, rainforest-grown Yerba Mate beverages to our product line-up. Our alliance with Guayakí continues to be particularly inspiring because of the deep commitment to sustainable trade and the vision of a better world that we share. And while Guayakí’s yerba mate drinks are a fantastic compliment to our line up of 100% Fair Trade, organic, shade grown coffees, it is their work with and respectful commitment to the Aché Guayakí people that we cherish most. Café Campesino thanks Guayakí for helping to make the promise of Fair Trade a reality... today.

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Guayakí’s yerba mate products are now available in our online store in the Teas & Chais section. Choose from a variety of Organic Packaged Guayakí Yerba Mate Tea Bags and Loose Mate, and Mate Gourds and Bombillas, artisan-crafted in the heart of South America. To learn more about preparing yerba mate drinks, visit the recipes page of our March 2006 edition of Fair Grounds.

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A hearty thanks to all of our friends – Bonnie, Dick, Geoffrey, Roy and his crew from the Newman Catholic Center, and our friends from Koinonia - who helped us crank out the coffee at this year’s extraordinary SOAW at the gate of Fort Benning’s School of the Americas.

Café Campesino’s Annual Open House... Join us this Friday, December 8th, from 5 pm until whenever, at 725 Spring Street for an evening full of coffee, espresso, libations, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, holiday shopping and the Americus debut of the Fair Trade film Black Gold. We’ll see you there!

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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

~ William Arthur Ward

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Americus, GA 31709

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