whakatane fairtrade 2010
Trade Aid products from Michelle's continues to be the first choice for me, as Trade Aid ONLY sell Fair Trade products, and Michelle is supporting the local economy in many and various healthy and sustainable ways. Countdown wins hands down for its remarkable selection of Fairtrade chocolate, including 3 types of Caffe L'Affare Drinking chocolate. I'm working my way through some samples, as a scientific study...
Hot tips for the most reasonably priced Supermarket FT goods are Gravity and Robert Harris coffee and Whittakers chocolate from Pak n Save. FT Bananas ONLY available from Pak n Save.
Michelle's Health & Nutrition, 28 Boon Street
TRADE AID Consumables, Soaps AND Crafts
Green & Blacks Maya Gold Chocolate
Dr Bonner Soap products
Countdown, Commerce Street
Scarborough Fair Chocolate - 70% cocoa, fruit and nut, Milk, Espresso and Mint options. YUM!!!
Whittakers Creamy Milk Chocolate
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate
Green & Black's Maya Gold Chocolate
Scarborough Fair Tea - Black, Green/flavoured, Earl Grey, ORGAINC & Biodynamic options
Scarborough Fair Coffee - Instant (granulated and powder),Ground and Beans
Caffe L'Affare Organic - Ground (plunger & espresso)
Robert Timms - Instant granulated Coffee
Caffe L'Affare - Drinking Chocolate in Milk, Dark and Mocha flavours
New World, Kakaharoa Drive
Green & Blacks Maya Gold Chocolate
Whittakers Creamy Milk Chocolate
Scarborough Fair Coffee - Organic Instant (powder only), Ground and Beans
Gravity Coffee - Ground
Robert Harris - Beans, Espresso and Plunger coffee
Karajoz - ORGANIC ground coffee
Scarborough Fair Tea - Green
Pak n Save, King Street
Robert Harris - Plunger, Espresso and Beans - Ethiopian & S American
Gravity - Ground
Avalanche - Plunger, Espresso and Beans
Whittakers Creamy Milk Chocolate
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate
NEW at Pak n Save!!!
All Good Fairtrade BANANAS!!!
Also at New World, Opotiki!!
Fresh Market, Lovelock Street
Scarborough Fair Coffee
Scarborough Fair Tea
WHAKATANE CAFES
Vendor Richardson Street, FT Organic Switch Coffee & Trade Aid Hot Chocolate
Shaz's Coffee Fix Van, often parked by Maraetotora Reserve, Ohope Beach
Tamars on The Strand - NEW!
The Fig on The Strand - Serving Flight Organic FT
Beach Haven, Pohutukawa Ave, 70% FT Organic Atomic
Columbus, The Hub, sell FT beans and ground.
Cafes who could get FT Coffee from their suppliers:
Robert Harris, The Strand Own brand
Baxters, The Strand. Fusion
Ground Zero, The Strand. Gravity
The Quay, Pohutukawa Avenue. Fixation
MAIL ORDER FAIRTRADE PRODUCTS
TRADE AID NEW! On-line shopping now available and FUNDRAISING options now available HERE.
NEW INTERNATIONALIST selling Trade Aid consumables.
NATURE SPOT FT Organic Cotton T-Shirt and Baby Clothes
MICAH CLOTHING
FT Organic Cotton T-Shirts, jeans etc
ADDITIONAL NOTES on PRODUCTS
This guide should help you to easily source FT products, but watch out! Some of the producers listed offer only one FT certified (cert) product amongst their vast range. The FT Foundation charges a 2% fee to use it's logo, based on the wholesale coffee price, so may be the reason behind non-certification, but as consumers we may view certification as a guide to authenticity. Trade Aid have been selling Fair Trade goods since the 70's; the Fairtrade cert logo was introduced into NZ only a few years ago.
Trade Aid - ALL products FT and working towards organic
Organico - ALL products FT and organic.
Switch - ALL products FT and organic. At Vendor.
Scarborough Fair - ALL products FT, but not all are organic.
Hummingbird have no cert on their labels. Trade Aid say they are FT.
Caffe L'Affare have many types of coffee in their range, but only one FT cert.
Gravity also have many types of coffee in their range, but only one FT cert.
Green & Blacks offer a FT chocolate bar and cocoa, but sell other products not FT, but all are Organic cert.
Atomic have four blends; two are FT cert, two are not (60-70% FT and increasing).
Cafe Haus - Three ground coffees in the range at Warehouse; One FT.
Excelso - At least one FT in range.
Robert Harris - Many coffees, two FT
Fusion - One FT in range
Fixation - One FT in range
Cadbury - One FT chocolate in massive range
Whittakers - One FT chocolate in massive range, but the best FT milk chocolate, in my opinion
