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31 Ways to Celebrate Fair Trade Month

Happy Fair Trade Month! Whether you're an avid supporter of Fair Trade or are curious to know what it all means, there's a new Web site offering daily doses of food talk, impact stories, events, and g...

How to Have a Fair Trade Valentine's Day

Back in October, during National Fair Trade Month, Emily highlighted several foods where fair trade policies—which require sustainable farming and just labor practices for the workers—make a bi...

Fair Trade: Sugar

As pie and cookie season nears, we thought we'd focus on sugar for the final installment of our Fair Trade pantry series....

Fair Trade: Honey

Here at The Kitchn, we're passionate about local honey and love being part of the chain that connects a region's flowers, bees, beekeepers, and consumers. (Joanna highlighted one of these regional pro...

Fair Trade: Vanilla

In honor of National Fair Trade Month, we're taking a look at some of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of common pantry ingredients. Last week, we found a number of Fair Trade cocoa pro...

Fair Trade: Cocoa

Although we do our best to eat local, some things are just grown too far from home. One of these foods is cocoa, most of which comes from the Ivory Coast region of West Africa, as well as Central Amer...

October: National Fair Trade Month

October is National Fair Trade Month! Throughout the month, The Kitchn will be exploring different Fair Trade products such as cocoa, honey, vanilla, and wine. To kick things off, we thought we'd take...

Equal Exchange: Online

What if you could buy all the organic goods you loved in one spot, and you knew the profits were going to a good cause? Welcome to Equal Exchange, one of our favorite web shops. Organic coffee, tea,...

Chocolate Artisan Profile: The Do-Gooders

Cacao growing is a brutal and harsh endeavor. It can only happen near the equator in some of the most challenging climates on earth, and most of the small farmers who grow it live in poverty, subjec...