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Using Coffee Grounds in Mulch: As a healthy substitute to chemical garden products, organic coffee grounds can be mixed with other organic materials, and used as mulch. When layered over the top of the soil with shredded organic leaves, they can help prevent moisture from evaporating and help retain heat in the winter, and keep cool in the summer. More and more people are now using organic coffee grounds in their compost to help the environment, and the gardens they so diligently tend to. If like me, you throw  these useful and reusable coffee filters in the trash many times...

Organic Farming and Water Conservation: Dwindling water supplies and poor water health are very real threats. When our water supply is at risk, people and the planet end up suffering. Water pollution is a threat to our world, and the use of harmful pesticides, toxic fertilizers, and animal waste do not help matters. Organic farming helps keep our water supplies clean by stopping that polluted runoff. It also helps conserve water. Organic farmers, in general, tend to spend time amending soil correctly and using mulch - both of which help conserve water. The extra attention these farmers give to their...

Benefits of Organic Farming: In addition to improving our health, growing organic coffee may have environmental benefits. According to the EPA, workers and families tending to organic farms, are not exposed to potentially harmful chemicals. These farms are more environmentally friendly because they use fewer non-renewable resources, such as petroleum, that most non-organic farms use. On these certified-organic farms, no chemicals get to leak into nearby soils or drinking water and none are carried in the air to the nearby land where the workers and families live.  Because organic coffee farmers do not use synthetic fertilizers or chemicals used in...

Organic Farming Helps With Erosion: Not only does organic farming help the environment by providing a healthy soil, but it helps combat serious soil and land issues, such as erosion. A major study comparing adjoining organic and chemically treated wheat fields, showed that the organic field featured eight more inches of topsoil than the chemically treated field. It also had only one-third the erosion loss. We all worry about issues affecting the land, food supply, and humans.  By planting trees and shrubs the farmers can block damaging strong winds and help protect against full sun and flooding rains. Organic farming...

When we started Tend Coffee over a decade ago we wanted to bring a net benefit to the communities we ended up working in and the people and environments we trade with.   Why “I” should bother to drink organic coffee, and is it really better for “me” are questions people ask themselves when shelling out there hard earned money for the coffee they choose and rightly so. In the end it’s a personal decision.   So if It's ultimately a personal decision, what about everyone else? Well lets see what ecologist Julie Craves writes in her 2016 article for...