Teas and Coffees

Buying tea? Fair trade coffee or organic instant coffee? Looking for the finest coffee beans? New Internationalist brings you a range of fairtrade, organic teas and coffees sourced from Ethiopia, East Timor (Timor Leste), Colombia and the famous Darjeeling tea estates in India.

Sugar & Spice and all things nice

- Made from pure sun-sweetened sugar cane, the NI Organic Fairtrade sugar crystals are less refined than traditional sugar.
- The berry of the Mountain Pepper tree (Tasmannia lanceolata) has an intensity of flavour that must be respected.
- The aromatic Native Mint (Prostanthera rotundigolia) – peppery with a hint of garlic – is perfect with lamb.
- Anisata, or aniseed myrtle, (Anetholea anisata) brings a fennel/star anise flavour to savoury and dessert dishes.
- Mountain Pepper tree leaves (Tasmannia lanceolata) add a zing to tapenades and salsas.
- Wattleseed (Acacia spp)has a strong nutty flavour with overtones of coffee or chickory.

Fairtrade & Wild Cashews in Sri Lanka

Ceylon Organic Spice Exports (COSE) was formed in 1997 to provide an alternative trade outlet for small scale traditional farmers. Typically, farmers produce food for the family and spices for sale on around half an acre. COSE pays at least 50% above what they could receive in the local market for their spices. Sun drying and packaging provides an income for women with few other options for earning. Farmers and their families can supplement their income by harvesting wild fruit and nuts, including cashews, from the surrounding forests. A Common Savings Fund, set up by COSE, is now managed by the family groups, for use during emergencies, such as a sudden illness or death, or weather related home repairs. In addition COSE provides school books and uniforms for the farmers' and workers' children.

Fairtrade & Lemon Myrtle in Australia

Robins Foods is a manufacturer of Australian native food products, including the Outback Spirit range, pioneering the incorporation of native foods into Australian cuisine, and committed to the meaningful inclusion of Aboriginal people in the growing native foods industry. All indigenous ingredients in Outback Spirit products are purchased exclusively through the Aboriginal-owned Indigenous Australian Foods (IAF). Robins Foods pays a further 10% endorsement fee over and above the price of the indigenous ingredients to IAF, allowing them to further develop their native food businesses, focussing on developing processing and cultivation capacity, skills and employment opportunities at the regional level.