Can you help bird conservation by simply enjoying your morning cup of coffee each day? Is there a difference between Bird Friendly and shade-grown coffee? How do they even roast coffee anyway? Join Kelly Smith of the American Birding Association to follow the journey those little beans take from the fincas in Central and South America to your kitchen, and how they support coffee farmers, the efforts of the ABA, and the protection of countless birds through community outreach and conservation along the way. Of course, coffee will be served!
Migrating songbirds need a place to rest on their long journeys and bird friendly shade-grown coffee is one way to ensure that their precious habitats are being preserved. Shade-grown coffee farms not only produce the best tasting coffees, they also support a wide variety of natural habitats and ecosystems. These conditions allow for a higher diversity of birds, plants, pollinators, mammals, and other species vs. the monoculture of full-sun coffee plantations. Purchasing Bird Friendly coffee is not only good for the habitats and ecosystems they create, it is also great for people, too! Rich and flavorful tasting coffee produced by certified organic coffee farmers protects water sources for the communities they live in and makes stronger local economies.
The American Birding Association is proud to work with our longtime partner Thanksgiving Coffee Company to bring you Song Bird Coffee. Song Bird is grown on small farms that have been certified Bird Friendly by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, the gold standard for shade-grown, organic coffees. (Limit of 60)
Coffee photo by Kendra K