Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
Hear Dean on NPR!
This weekend, October 20, and 21, Dean will be interviewed by host Steve Curwood on Living on Earth, a nationally syndicated NPR broadcast. They talk about Dean's new book, "Javatrekker"...
Into the Araku Valley (India)
(Our roving ambassador, Phoebe, reports on her visit to a unique coffee source - the tribal area of Araku Valley in India) In India’s hidden gem, theAraku Valley, rumors fly...
Pirate Dean Makes the Screen!
It took two years and $280 million to put me on the big screen alongside fellow pirate Johnny Depp, but… I made it!! See me in the next to last...
Dean’s Beans Raises the Bar for Trade Justice with Two New Agreements!
Dean’s Beans continues to raise the bar in the area of trade justice with the signing of two new agreements this week regarding Ethiopia and Peru. The two agreements mark...
Global Warning: Colombia
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”), government officials and scientists from more than 100 countries, wrangled for weeks in Brussels in early 2007 as to whether global warming was...
News from Guatemala!
Our Social Change Intern, Michael Skillicorn, reports from Guatemala! Sunday Morning, 4:45 A I am awakened by a tap on my window pane. Someone is calling me, in muddled Spanish,...
Boston Business Journal highlights Dean's Beans
Dean lets the Boston Business Journal in on his secrets of organic, sustainable growth. Read the article to find out why at Dean's Beans"...growth is the outcome of a good...
Teaching and Learning in Peru
What better way to start the New Year than being the first American Fair Trader to visit the indigenous coffee communities of northern Peru! I went to see the growers...
I'm a Father - Again and Again!
Light up the cigars (or not)! I am a father in Ethiopia and in Indonesia!As you all know, I recently became the "second father" (an Oromo tradition) to Rahema Hussein...
Celebrating Fair Trade in Ethiopia
I have just returned from an amazing two weeks with the farmers of Oromia Cooperative in the far-flung reaches of southern, eastern and western Ethiopia (as in ten hours by...
Dean's Beans receives Top Growth award
The Worcester Business Journal recently named Dean's Beans as one of Central Massachusetts' Top Growth Companies. The top growth list, comprised of the top 25 privately held companies, 15 publicly...
Gimme a Little Sugar!
Hey all you sweet toothers!We are now offering Organic/Fair Trade Sugar at our usual ridiculously low prices! Get ready for holiday baking with our Baker's Coca and Sugar or just...