Fair Trade Teas

All Coffee Exchange teas are made up entirely of handcrafted herbal infusions - using organically grown herbs whenever possible - from Irie Tea of Providence, RI. They feature the finest in white, green,

and black teas as well as medicinally minded, carefully crafted, and delicious herbal blends. Tea is blended in small batches using the freshest ingredients available to ensure the tastiest and most potent tea.

Coffee Exchange is going "organic." Which means to say that we are being certified by the USDA as a "certified organic" coffee roaster, insuring not only that all our coffee certified organic, but that all our suppliers of organic coffees are certified organic, as well. We were prepared for the ramifications of this process, and eliminated non-organic coffees from our repertoire, including the very popular Kenya AA.

Now we are faced with a similar dilemma with our teas. While our tea supplier labels his teas in varying degrees of "organic," "mostly organic" and the like, we've been informed that for Coffee Exchange to call these teas "organic," (in the sustainablecoffee.com website) our supplier must be certified as organic, as well.

Accordingly, and until he is certified as an organic handler of teas, we will eliminate all reference to "organic" when describing our teas. Rest assured, the tea we sell next week is the same tea we sold last week. We just can't call it "organic" until our supplier is certified, or we change suppliers. We’re not likely to change suppliers; the tea's too good. But we can't afford to play chicken with the government, especially with the threat of a $50,000 fine for non-compliance hanging out there, so we'll simply remove the "organic" label from our teas and hope you recognize there is no difference. Indeed, when it comes to Coffee Exchange Teas, only the label has been changed, to protect the innocent, so to speak.