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04-16-2008, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Where to find Coffee bean market/farm to buy a few hundred pounds of beans?
Where can one, in the Puerto Plata area, or any area in the DR for that matter,, find a market/farm where one can buy fresh green coffee beans in bulk, preferably at the fair trade price of $1.26 a pound? How much is the current price per pound in the DR for green coffee beans going for now in bulk purchases >200 pounds?
I have heard that the Cibao, Ocoa, and Bahorulo regions of the mountains is where the best quality cofee grows in high altitudes. Will I have to go over there and get in touch with the farmers to avoid the middleman and get the cheapest price?
Basically, where from Puerto Plata/Sosua/Cabarete can the source for these green coffee beans?
Thanks all in advance.
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04-16-2008, 12:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Please buy through a farmers organization or collective. This is the way that the farmers protect themselves against unfair trade practice.
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04-16-2008, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
Please buy through a farmers organization or collective. This is the way that the farmers protect themselves against unfair trade practice.
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Sounds good to me. Hey, wouldn't it be a good idea to make a sticky with this kind of contact info? This would be a great way to give back to the community and given that DR1 is so reknowned as far as the DR goes, could really make a difference.
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04-16-2008, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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We have a lot of this information in environment Chip, but I am not unwilling to make a sticky here in living - if people have information to add freely here? The coffee producers/growers are not really on the well-trodden tourist highway. 
I have a lot of information but will have to take a little time to put it together. In the meantime, anyone with coffee producer info .. just list it here! (Is that what you meant?) |
04-16-2008, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I'd contact Monte Alto in Jarabacoa. They produce a line of organic coffee (excellent, BTW) in fairly small batches. Alida's cousin's family, the Ramirez's in Jarabacoa, owns it.
Cafe Jarabacoa (not related to Monte Alto) is a coffee grower cooperative that also produces coffee for export. |
04-16-2008, 01:37 PM
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Bronze
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 2
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Thanks for that list Tamborista...
We all know how mind blowing Dominican coffee can be if correctly brewed so let's keep spilling out the coffee producer list!
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04-16-2008, 01:47 PM
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hasta la tambora
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I assume you understand you can not toss 50LBS of raw beans in a suitcase!
Good luck, and keep us posted please.
tambo'
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04-16-2008, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 6,878
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FEDECARES - are in the south, but for the benefit of future searchers I'll include their details here- they have fair trade and organic certification.
Federación de Caficultores de la Región Sur (FEDECARES)
Calle 27 de Febrero, No. 84, Barrio Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal - REPUBLICA DOMINICANA
Tel: +809 528-7552 / Fax: +809 528-6719
Email: fed.cafe[at]codetel.net.do
FEDECARES - Who we are |
04-17-2008, 01:22 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 649
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Originally Posted by Chris
We have a lot of this information in environment Chip, but I am not unwilling to make a sticky here in living - if people have information to add freely here? The coffee producers/growers are not really on the well-trodden tourist highway.
I have a lot of information but will have to take a little time to put it together. In the meantime, anyone with coffee producer info .. just list it here! (Is that what you meant?) |
i second the vote, I am a BIG fan of organic products [especially coffee], would be great to get it in TRAILER LOADS from DR into NY! 
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