April Coffee News

-Holy Week in Honduras
-New VFC Website
-Handbags made out of potato chip bags!
-Upcoming Fair Trade and green events

Holy Week in Honduras
Down in Honduras, everything stops during Holy Week, and those people who can head to the beach. It certainly isn't beach weather here in Minesota. But we are hopeful that Spring will eventually arrive (even though we are suppose to wake up to snow tomorrow!) In addition to going to the beach, Comayagua, the big city closest to the coffee farms, is known for its colorful Easter Carpets made out of sawdust and flower petals. I've posted one photo below and found another picture and one American journalist's description of the event at: http://www.travel-to-honduras.com/travel/honduras-comayagua.php

VFC Website has moved
If you've stopped by our Website in the last week or so, you've probably noticed that it looks different. Similar in design and content, but somehow different. With the help of folks at Sunday's Energy, we are excited to have moved our website to an "open-source on-line contact management system" called Drupel. That is, in English -- free on-line software that will let us more easily manage our website. We will also be able to easily add features like e-commerce in the near future so that people can purchase on-line with a credit card and other fun bells and whistles like a photo gallery. Perhaps we'll even do a "blog" the next time we travel to Honduras! But it can still be found at http://www.vfamilycoffee.com.

Fair Trade and Green Events coming up
While Guillermo is busy delivering coffee this weekend, Cathy will be busy at a great Fair Trade event called The World Jubilee. She'll be selling unique handbags made out of recovered chip bags by women in the Rio Negro community near the coffee farm. If you were at our October Open House you had a chance to see them. But if you didn't here is a photo. It's amazing how creative these women can be with empty potato chip bags!

The World Jubilee event is Saturday, April 14th from 9 AM - 4 PM at the Gloria Dei Church, 700 Snelling Ave. S in Saint Paul. We encourage you to stop by. There are many wonderful items for sale from all over the world at this bi-annual event that provides alternative markets for economically disadvantaged groups from around the world.

Also on Saturday, there is a great Global Warming event at the State Capitol in St. Paul from 12-4. We wish we could attend if we weren't already double booked.

We're also getting ready to set up our display again at the Living Green Expo May 5-6. We've had a couple of our customers offer to help us staff our booth and we'd happily welcome others if you are available.