Fair Grounds Newsletter from Cafe Campesino

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Adios 2007...Bienvenido 2008
Holiday Ordering Deadlines
Newsletter Special: Free Shipping
Ten (count 'em) Cool Gift Ideas
Update from the Coffee Lands
Community Caravan
Quote of the Month
Past Issues of Fair Grounds

On behalf of our producer partners around the world and everyone here at Café Campesino, we want to thank all of our customers for helping us make 2007 another banner year down here in Southwest Georgia!

We also want to thank the staff at Cooperative Coffees: Bill, Monika, Abby, and crew for everything they do to connect us with our coffee-producing partners and their extraordinary quality green coffee beans, season after season. This past July Café Campesino and the other 22 members of Cooperative Coffees achieved a noteworthy milestone: the importation of our coop's 8 millionth pound of Fair Trade coffee. Now, how about them beans!

Finally, we want to take this opportunity to thank our producer partners for everything they do to make this all possible — we are grateful and proud to be your trading partners and friends.

We look forward to more of the same in 2008 and wish everyone in the Café Campesino family a happy holiday season!

Adelante!

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Please note that we will be roasting and shipping through the end of the day on Friday, December 21st and will resume normal roasting and shipping operations on Wednesday, December 26th. However, to ensure that your order is delivered in time for the holidays please make sure that you allow enough time for us to roast your coffee and for UPS to deliver it. The following is a rough estimate of deadlines for ordering coffee for delivery by Monday, December 24th... assuming everything goes according to UPS' plan! Please consult UPS to confirm that on-time delivery is possible based on your order's destination.

Order by December 20th: AL, GA, Northern FL

Order by December 19th: AR, Southern FL, IL, IN, KY, LA, MS, MI, MO, OH, TN, SC, NC, VA, WV

Order by December 18th: CO, CT, DE, IA, KS, MA, MD, ME (except northernmost region), MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OK, PA, RI, TX, VT, WI, Washington DC

Order by December 17th: AZ, NE, ND, SD, WY

Order by December 13th: CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA

Special Note: Café Campesino will make every effort to roast, pack and ship orders as quickly possible. Large orders or orders that require special packaging or shipping arrangements may delay shipping.

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Readers of this month's Fair Grounds get free shipping on orders of $35 or more. Get those gift orders in now and take advantage of this offer! If ordering online, please enter promotional code hdship upon checking out or, if ordering by telephone, please be sure to mention the promo code to the person who takes your order. Please note that the newsletter special applies only to retail customers and cannot be combined with any other discount or promotional code.

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Running out of gift ideas? We can help! Here's a list of great gift ideas for fellow coffee and tea lovers:

1. One of our Bodum French Presses and a pound of our delicious coffee.

2. A pound of your favorite Café Campesino coffee and one of our handcrafted ceramic mugs or our new biodegradable corn plastic travel mug.

3. Fair Trade, Organic teas and yerba mates... too many varieties to list!

4. One of our selection of books, like A Cafecito Story by Julia Alvares, Coffee with Pleasure by Laure Waridel or Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast

5. One of our great gift boxes or new snazzy samplers.

6. A coffee grinder and pound of whole bean Café Campesino coffee for a friend who hasn't yet discovered the joy of coffee brewed with freshly ground beans.

7. A 12 oz. tin of Dagoba's truly exquisite Fair Tade, organic hot chocolate and a Café Campesino hand-crafted ceramic mug.

8. A Café Campesino Gift Certificate – in $25 and $50 denominations.

9. A pound Café Campesino and either a 2 oz. bottle or 100-count pack of Stevia SweetLeaf natural sweetener.

10. A year's worth of freshly roasted coffee from the Café Campesino Coffee Club.

Check out our website for these gifts and more.

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Unfortunately, because of issues at origin, we have a very limited supply of Sumatra through the holidays – we anticipate a new shipment to arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. East Timor is out of stock until the first of the year. But don't fret... we've lots of fine coffee available to help you (and your friends) get your buzz on...

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A big thanks to Geoffrey, who spent the weekend of November 16-18 in Columbus, Georgia, for the School of the Americas Watch, where he served up tons of Café Campesino coffee to the thousands of students, people of faith, and human rights activists attending the annual vigil. The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) is a grassroots movement that stands in solidarity with the people of Latin America to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to change what many believe is the oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. This makes the ninth year that Café Campesino has served coffee at the SOAW. We also want to extend a hearty thanks to our friend Sheila Crowley and the many other folks who went out of their way to volunteer and help Geoffrey keep the java flowin'.

Bill just returned (literally) from a 12-day journey to Sumatra where he met with our friends at PPKGO, attended meetings between FLO (Fair Trade Labeling Organization) and our producer partners there and visited a few new potential partner groups as well. We're all waiting to learn more about Bill's experience in Sumatra... stay tuned for his trip report in an upcoming issue of Fair Grounds.

Café Campesino's annual Open House is this Thursday, December 13th. Please join us at 725 Spring Street from 5 to 9 pm for an evening full of coffee, espresso, hors d'oeuvres, holiday shopping, and, well, just a darn good time!

You never know what perfect gift idea you'll stumble upon at the roastery while sipping on a cup of fresh-roasted, freshly-brewed Café Campesino coffee! We have everything from Fair Trade soccer balls to handmade pottery, finger puppets to handbags, and much more. Café Campesino will be open from 9am to 2pm on Saturday, December 22nd for your last minute gift shopping convenience! Stop by the roastery at 725 Spring Street for our amazing Fair Trade sale. And, of course, our coffees, teas, chais, Guayaki and Dagoba products will be available.

Café Campesino will be closed on Monday, December 24th and Tuesday, December 25th for Christmas. Be sure to get those orders in early to avoid running out of coffee! We will re-open on Wednesday the 26th. We will close again on Tuesday, January 1, 2008, and will resume normal hours on Wednesday, January 2.

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we wish you and your family a joyous holiday and a prosperous new year!

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"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Café Campesino
725 Spring Street
Americus, GA 31709

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