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Event The Biggest Coffee Tasting in the History of Bridgewater ... just got bigger James Hayes-Bohanan , Ph.D. Coffee Maven and Geographer Bridgewater State College Updated January 19, 2012 My coffee obsession began when I started to understand the plight of many thousands of farmers who work very hard to produce fine coffees and earn very little for their efforts. |
 Thank the farmers!
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| Thursday, April
5, 2012 Second-year Seminar: Secret Life of Coffee in cooperation with Social Justice League's Just Trade Fair Both events in the Grand Ballroom of the Campus Center Just Trade Fair: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasting and Poster Exhibit: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. |
 This event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted to Coffee Kids, which supports education, health, and other projects in coffee-growing communities worldwide. Detailed information will be available at the event. |
Photo & quip: Jane Doherty
When you cannot make up your mind…brew them all!
 These students were part of the 2007 tasting. See photos from the subsequent tasting events on Flickr. |
Thursday,
APRIL
14,
2011 GINORMOUS TASTING EVENT & FAIR-TRADE FAIR Tasting event and poster presentations from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Social Justice League Just-Trade Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Both events will be held in the Campus Center Ballroom, Bridgewater State University. Thanks to Academic Affairs, the Department of Geography, and the Social Justice League Thanks to the dedicated staff in CESO and the Campus Center Thanks to the wonderful students who have helped this event to grow year-by-year Most of all, of course, Thank the Farmers from every coffee-growing corner of the planet! |
Both
sections of my
Second-Year Seminar -- GEOG 298: The Secret Life of
Coffee -- will be
organized a single event: a coffee tasting in the Campus
Center
Ballroom on the afternoon of April 14, 2011. More than
forty students
will organize the tasting, including some who
have actually been to coffee farms. Students will
prepare coffees from
at least eight countries. More importantly, they will
prepare posters
and handouts and will be prepared to answer your
questions about the
coffee they are serving.Students will also be prepared to discuss various aspects of coffee from the field to the cup, such as organic growing, how to prepare coffee, coffee on campus, the fair trade movement, and competing models for treating farmers justly.
If you are attending, please bring your own cup. You will save a few trees and the coffee will taste better.
Guests will be asked to vote for their favorite coffees and the best posters!
Coffee will be served at most of the posters, and information about that coffee will be available on the poster and from the student presenters. This course is in two sections, so a different mix of posters -- and coffees -- will be available during the 1:00 and 2:00 hours.