The UK organic market is booming 12.6% up year on year. This is the highest growth since dip that followed the 2007 financial crisis – the total market has now reached reaching £2.79B. Growth is led by online sales during the Covid pandemic, say the Soil Association: “organic is now rightfully recognised as the cornerstone of a resilient food…
Good news for all our Fairtrade customers: together we have raised over £12,000 for the Fairtrade Foundation. That’s just from the levy we pay. Coffee farmers get a lot more than that due to the guaranteed floor on the price paid by importers and processers like Coffee Plant for Fairtrade Coffee. For more on where the money goes, you…
You can guess why: the big C. Our manager was in bed for nearly three weeks and when a second (symptomless) staff member tested positive we decided to close for a week. No-one at Coffee Plant has tested positive or had any symptoms till now, so maybe we were caught out by the new variant. We are due to…
Please find the most up to date information on additional delivery costs to EU Countries due to Brexit that are outside of our control here.
If you haven’t been in our shop lately you will notice the team has changed. Michele the manager has been with us for two years but Raluca, Aylin and Ciar are new, following on from our summer team of Amro and Amira. Like most places we are not as busy making cups of coffee as pre-Covid and are managing…
The politics obsessed western media has hardly noticed but Central America has been hit by one of the most destructive hurricanes on record. Hurricane Eta has mainly affected Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, three coffee growing countries whose coffee we roast at Coffee Plant. Eta has dumped anywhere between 15 and 25 inches of rain with a potential of going…
Coffee Plant owner Ian Henshall says: “I have never know a time when there has been a wider range of opinion on something than current issues with Covid. Some customers are getting quite agitated if we remind them to wear a mask, saying the threat is exaggerated or even a hoax. Who knows, they may be right. Since the…
That’s the bad news, but there is good news too, a massive public reaction that has seen 250,000 signatures collected. MPs have spoken out too, with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fairtrade condemning this decision strongly, after grilling Nestlé representatives in Parliament. Nestle have not been shamed into reversing their decision but say they will maintain some Fairtrade values…
In choosing your coffee you should look out for two factors: roast strength and origin and in our opinion roast strength is the more important. If you are confused by the wide range we offer we would advise you to identify the roast you prefer and only then decide on the origin or blend. So for instance if you…
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