We roast Fair Trade to guarantee that the family farmers we depend on for excellent coffee are getting a fair deal. Fair Trade certification ensures that the farmers who grow our coffees are compensated fairly, allowing the profits from their harvests to be reinvested in their own communities.

By choosing Fair Trade, you’re choosing to make a positive difference through your purchases, voting for the right of small-scale independent farmers to continue growing the best coffee available.

Organic and Shade Grown certification ensures that our coffee is preserving the natural environment where it is grown. No chemicals, no pesticides: coffee grown under the forest canopy by farmers committed to the quality of their crop. As an exclusive Organic and Shade Grown roaster, Higher Ground supports a sustainable coffee industry: a responsible industry that will not sacrifice quality, fairness or conservation in the process of bringing your coffee from the crop to the cup.

Higher Ground’s business model offers a way for coffee lovers to become involved in a positive campaign for a better world. It allows our individual purchases to speak our convictions.

Together we can redefine what makes a Quality cup of coffee, broadening the definition to include the quality of life and the quality of the natural environment where our coffees are grown.