10/2/2008
down with the market?
We are down with the Market.
No not that market. The Eastern Market is what I am talking about. Since our economy and free market are foundering why not return to the fundamentals of the true market economy. That is, selling food and drinks grown and produced locally. We are fully supportive of the locavore movement even if it is a bit of a mouthful. As long as we’ve got mouthfuls of Michigan produce in our larder, we can weather any economic turbulence. What are the fundamentals of a market economy. In my view, they would be:
Locally grown fruits, vegetables and grains.
Locally produced milk from hormone-free milking cows.
Locally raised hormone-free beef, pork and chicken.
Local honey and eggs
Local beer
Locally roasted coffee.
These are a few of my favorite things. We want to reintroduce people to fresh roasted local coffee when they are shopping the market. So until we can get a roasting facility down there, we are roasting one kind of coffee each week on Friday and selling it Saturday morning. So far we have done an organic Colombia and Fair Trade Organic Sumatra. You can find the write-ups below. This week we are featuring one of my favorite coffees, Fair Trade Organic Ethiopia Harrar. We just got a shipment of new crop Harrar straight out of Africa. So we in turn are roasting it and taking it straight to market for the mother of all coffee I.P.O.’s. This initial public offering is sure to work market denizens into a flurry of buying activity.
Take stock of your portfolio of food and diversify your holdings with some Great Lakes Coffee, a true mark to market value.
posted by roastmaster at 12:19 PM
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