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Experience Minnehaha Ave.

On October 24th gather your friends, family and neighbors for a day — and night — of fun to support local businesses that have been effected by the road construction along Minnehaha Ave! Start the event off listening to live music from Saint Paul Mudsteppers at our shop from noon to 2pm. Afterward begin your search for the Great Golden Pumpkin. Finally end your evening enjoying fre…

Fundraiser Program

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Whatever your cause, we know you'll meet your goals faster when fully caffeinated! Our selection of quality coffee, tea, and cocoa is easy to sell and works great for mission-aligned fundraising. All coffees are 100% fair trade, certified organic, and shade grown. No minimum orders, simple ordering systems, and good ethics makes it easy to buy. Fill out a wholesale information request and…

Invest in the Future of Food (& Coffee)!

Contributed by Anna Canning, Fair World Project Communications Coordinator

This Saturday, May 13th, people in over 70 countries on every continent except Antarctica will celebrate World Fair Trade Day and the small-scale farmers and artisans at the heart of the fair trade movement. Fair trade is a movement that empowers farmers to organize and earn a livelihood within the highly competitive global marketplace. Through organizing, they tend to what matters most—t…

Media Info page

Hello! Thanks for checking in! Peace Coffee is a Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to making exceptional-tasting, organic fair-trade coffee that supports the people that grow, roast, and sell it, and preserves and protects the environment that produces it. Our values include quality, sustainability, community, individuality, and also, transparency so if you cannot find what you n…

Mugs of Love: 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

Warm the hands and hearts of those you love with holiday treats from Peace Coffee ’Tis the season with oh so many reasons to give gifts. A bag of Peace Coffee is a timeless hostess gift for any occasion, but some festive gatherings call for an extra special gesture. For this holiday season, we rounded up some of our most popular offerings from past years and added some fresh local finds…

National Coffee Day Sept. 29th, 2016

While we're pretty sure every day is coffee day, the makers of those sorts of holidays have declared Thursday, September 29th as National Coffee Day and we're happy to play along. Stop by any one of our shops and get a free house-made drink when you buy a bag of beans*—coffee for now and for later! *Five bag limit.

Peace Pedaling

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Peace Coffee delivers via bike to our local wholesale accounts wherever possible. Every day, in any weather, they'll be out hauling 350 lb. trailers across Minneapolis and St. Paul to deliver beans without a drop of gasoline. Our commitment to bike delivery started in the early days of our business: Before we could afford a delivery vehicle, it was simply more fun to hop on a bike with some b…

Perennial Plate: There is only coffee

Our friends at the Perennial Plate have created the next best thing to a trip to the origin of coffee. Last winter, Queen Bean Lee accompanied them on a tour of the Sidama region of Ethiopia to visit with our partners at the Sidama Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU). With the assistance of our colleagues at Cooperative Coffees, they spent several days interviewing farmers and co-op staff. The …

The Art of Turkish Coffee

Turkish coffee—that thick, sweet, gritty, tiny cup—has a preparation that hints at its ancient origins. One of the oldest methods of coffee preparation still in use today, its simplicity allows for accuracy without the precise instruments that we've grown accustomed to. And besides, it's a delicious way to taste how coffee might have tasted at its beginnings. The ultra-fine grind…

We have reason to celebrate!

For 20 years, we have remained steadfast in our commitment to bringing you quality fair trade organic coffee from small-producer farms around the globe. We have formed some very effective and transformative relationships with farmers over those years, but we also want to take time this year to focus on our local partners who carry our message by serving coffee beyond our reach. As the first of …