October 2, 2011 by Phyllis Robinson
October is National Co-op Month. To honor and celebrate this occasion, Equal Exchange is partnering with our food co-op allies to support an emerging new small farmer tea model being birthed in Darjeeling, India. If you shop at a food co-op, we hope you’ll join us in this historic moment to support the Potong Tea Garden and its workers. During this entire month of October, for each Equal Exchange product sold through food co-ops, we will donate 25 cents (up to $15,000) to the Potong community for the planting of 30,000 new tea bushes. Read on to learn more…
Children at the Potong Tea Garden, Darjeeling, India
In the foothills of the Himalayas, the Potong Tea Garden, once a colonial plantation, now collectively run by its workers, is making history. If this revolutionary new model is successful, not only will it generate significant
