Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog

We have just received a new shipment of Haitian coffee from the wonderful Just Haiti project we have teamed up with. The first five hundred pounds we roasted went fast...

We are very humbled and happy to have been recognized on Martin Luther King Day for our commitment to social justice and Peace. In a ceremony in Orange, we were...

Deeper and deeper we go! Looking back over 2013, I can't believe how deeply we went into our work in the coffeelands. Between me, Michael, Vic, Heather and a slew...

Check out this great article featuring Dean's Beans about REAL fair traders: Fair Trade Federation

Vic and Michael have just returned from Peru after a week visiting with the Oro Verde cooperative. The goal of the trip was to help the Coop set up their...

Last week we had the pleasure of receiving Hildebrando Cardenas, the General Manager of the Oro Verde Cooperative in Peru. He just so happened to arrive on the same day...

At the Pitzer College graduation in May, senior Emma G. asked me if there was anything she could do to work with some of our farmers. Careful what you ask...

The deadline to sign up for the trip is December 1st! (SIGN UP NOW CLOSED) In July, Dean's Beans led our first Social X Change with 12 of our customers...

Celebrate with us twenty years of raising the bar on trade justice, raising hell with the Big Boys, raising incomes and quality of life throughout the coffee world, while raising...

Off to the State House in the morning to testify in favor of GMO labeling legislation here in Massachusetts. Consumers have a right to know what's in their food!

Last week the Business for Peace Foundation, based in Oslo, Norway, announced its 2013 Business for Peace Honorees. Eighty nominations from fifty countries, five Honorees and Dean was the only...

We are excited to announce that Dean's Beans has teamed up with the Iron Horse Entertainment Group in Northampton, Massachusetts to present an ongoing music series of amazing performers from...