Organic and Fair Trade Tea Retailers - Any Ideas?

List of FT companies on here: http://www.fairtradeusa.org/products-partners/tea
Click a name and see what’s FT and from there what’s organic too! Though other websites might use a different group regarding Fair Trade, that’s the one thing that irritates me with it, that there’s no one place to turn to.

The rainforest alliance has several producers that are certified under an sustainable agriculture program which seems to encompass many of the values of fair trade, as well as ensuring that the tea is produced in a way that is ecologically and socially responsible. You can find out specific tea gardens or distributes that are certified under the program here.

http://sustainablefarmcert.com/index.php?page_id=23

and some of the goals of certification here.

http://www.sanstandards.org/sitio/subsections/display/7

These teas may be available at several different companies.

As for specific companies Shanti teas in Canada sells only Organic teas.

http://www.shantitea.ca/

This topic may be of interest: http://steepster.com/discuss/5160-favorite-organic-black-teas?post_id=93508#forum_post_93508

David’s Has a selection of fair trade teas as well here.

http://www.davidstea.com/fair-trade

That should keep me busy for a while – thank you for the great info!

A lesser know tea origin, local to me, but they are all organic and have always been and it´s probably the only commercial tea production in the European Union is Azores tea.

This brand is the more well known http://www.gorreanatea.com/ though there are a couple other plantations literally next door I think.

It´s probably not “fair trade” necessarily because I only have ever heard the expression applied to developing countries – in this case workers would almost certainly have the lowest wages in western europe, but it is western europe but those would still be a lot more than workers in other destinations (plus labor laws and a location where due to geography I see migrant worker exploitation being extremely unlikely. Good luck finding plane tickets, LOL)

One of my favorite companies that is both fair trade and organic is Arbor Teas. http://www.arborteas.com/

There are many different companies that also offer fair trade, organic choices, however, when I think “fair trade/organic” Arbor Teas is generally the first name that pops in my head.

I joined the mailing list at Rishi Teas today and noted that they feature their connection to fair trade. I went to their site for their fair trade Ancient Yellow Buds tea which I like. You can find them at rishi-tea.com.