We are excited to offer our customers our Fair Trade Certified teas and tisanes. Fair Trade Certification directly helps the farmers and families in the tea and rooibos growing nations. It helps to lift them from poverty by developing the business skills necessary to compete globally. Fair Trade guarantees minimum floor prices and social premiums and enables producers to invest in their farms and communites and protect the environment. They can use the money for better housing, schools, healthcare, etc. It is a market-based model of international trade that benefits over one million farmers and farm workers in 58 developing countries. You can make a difference by choosing products that have the Fair Trade Certified label.

Fair Trade principles include Fair Price, Fair Labor Conditions, and Direct Trade, Democratic and Transparent Organzations, Community Development and Environmental Sustainability.
Fair Trade Certification comes from TransFair USA, the only independent third party certifier of Fair Trade products in the US. TransFair is one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO). TransFair’s rigorous audit system, which tracks products from farm to finished product, verifies industry compliance with Fair Trade criteria. TransFair allows U.S. companies to display the Fair Trade Certified label on products that meet strict Fair Trade standards .

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