Mary of Lourdes School Coffee
 Mary of Lourdes coffee is gourmet coffee and is always fresh. This coffee is directly purchased from a group of farmers in San Miguel Escobar, Guatemala near Antigua. In fact we sponsor mission trips twice a year to this region and help the farmers with their harvesting of the coffee fruit. This truly is a blessed effort fulfilling our call to Social Justice. You could come with us and be part of the harvesting and processing of coffee while entering into mission work in the area to help some of the poorest of the poor. For a mission trip schedule go to www.Risingvillages.org
This Arabica coffee is well known in the coffee industry as being of the highest quality. We have it roasted in small batches and only upon order to provide the freshest coffee available. To provide the freshest cup of coffee possible you can order your coffee for delivery* or pick up on the 1st or the 15th of the month. Pick up locations are Mary of Lourdes School and Our Lady of Lourdes Church 208 W. Broadway Little Falls, MN
It can be purchased in a Medium Roast or French Roast or a Dark Roast - Ground or whole bean - $12 per pound. You would be hard pressed to find fresh fine quality coffee like this for this cheap anywhere. Click here to order coffee online.
 When you purchase coffee from the Mary of Lourdes School, you are supporting our work close to home and in the fields far away. We have partnered with As Green As It Gets to bring you an excellent coffee that is a good for the farmer and as good for the planet as it is in your cup. The coffee is sustainably grown in the mountains of Guatemala using a variety of organic techniques. It is processed in small batches in the homes of small farmers. Mary of Lourdes School trades directly with the farmer, making cash payments with no middlemen to make sure the farmers are adequately compensated. All the proceeds from our sales of coffee are put into our “Support a Student Fund” which benefits families to help them with tuition assistance.
Mary of Lourdes school Coffee supports small farmers with responsible agricultural practices, a mind for quality and a heart to help their community. We purchase our coffee exclusively from twenty farmers of San Miguel Escobar, Sacatepequez, Guatemala. These are not plantation owners; theses are husbands, fathers, mothers, and wives supporting their families on a few acres, or even a fraction of an acre. When we do business in San Miguel, we are engaging not charity, but business with heart and compassion. We compensate these farmers directly, with cash payments, at prices that can actually feed a family. There are no middlemen taking a cut, just you, Our Lady of Lourdes, and farmers like Miguel Gonzalez.
 This coffee embraces sustainable agricultural practices and techniques that are good for the planet. When the San Miguel farmers process their coffee, they use only 5% of the water used to process conventional coffee. All the organic by-products; the coffee fruit, hulls, grounds, and even the manure from the pack animals are returned to the field as organic fertilizer. The coffee is grown under shade trees, with each farmer having planted several hundred hardwood trees that absorb greenhouse gasses and reduce soil loss. The coffee is ‘criollo’ meaning it is produced from seed stock that has not been grafted, irradiated, or genetically manipulated.
 When you give a San Miguel Farmer a hand, he gives a hand to his community. As business men and women, they provide seasonal employment opportunities, support the schools and the tax base, and enrich their town financially. These farmers go above and beyond simple business practices. Collectively, they have built a soccer field for the town youth on a donated lot and are currently building a junior high school and vocational-technical school for the community. Every farmer we work with has donated a minimum of 1 month’s labor to school construction, and some have donated up to 25% of their annual coffee income for the school. Your dollar keeps working long after you have finished your cup of coffee.
Try our coffee, and we won’t have to convince you that these farmers know quality. Every plant is hand planted. Every bean is hand picked, hand sorted, fermented in small batches, and produced with care. You might call it bright and full-bodied, but we just call it good.
Our partner in Guatemala is As Green As It Gets. They are a non-profit corporation registered in Minnesota. To find out more about their work and their coffee, click here: www.asgreenasitgets.org |
