Green Mountain Coffee Fair Trade Organic Whole Bean Coffee - French Roast Decaf, 4 lbs

FTO French Roast is dark and complex. Roasted and blended for a bold, but sweet intensity.Certified Fair Trade and Organic. Tasting NotesDeep, dark and satisfying, our Fair TradeOrganic French Roast Decaf arrives at its rich taste and complex flavors through the artfulblending of multiple roast styles. Its flavors are a reflection of the warm days, cool nightsand high elevation along the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala's most famous ? andarguably its most beautiful ? crater lake.Flavor ChartWe find coffees from the Atitlan regionto be naturally sweet and lushly aromatic, and more than able to meet the rigors of thisdemanding dark-roast blend.A Swiss Water? Process decaffeinated coffee.Notes from OriginLa VozQue Clama en el Desierto (The Voice that Cries Out in the Desert) is the name of a Guatemalancoffee cooperative begun in 1977 by the indigenous Tzutuhil men and women of San Juan de LaLaguna, near Guatemala's Lake Atitl?n.The drop in coffee prices in the late 1990s forced manyLa Voz families to stop sending their children to school. With the higher incomes that FairTrade provides, families now maintain well-equipped schools with high academic standards in thecommunities of San Juan, San Pedro, and Palestina. Three hundred children of La Voz memberspresently attend school in the area. The cooperative recently presented each of the schoolswith 150 desks, purchased with Fair Trade revenue from the 2002-2003 harvest. 'Every singlechild of the members of La Voz is in school. Income from Fair Trade has helped send ourchildren all the way through to university and helped them obtain professional positions suchas agronomists and doctors. The children come back to work to help their parents in whateverway they can. The best inheritance parents can give their children is education.'?Benjam?nCholot?o, La Voz General Manager. In regular and decaf.