Every year across the country the American Cancer Society sponsors the Relay for Life in communities across the country. It is a true community event, where teams are formed from individuals and groups committing to walking through the day and night. They are sponsored by others and raise money through the process. At Fidalgo Bay, we have been participating the past three years by providing espresso drinks at the event, free of charge. We collect donations of course. This year we raised $907. The booth is staffed for the whole event, yes through the night, by our staff who graciously volunteer their time.
Check out the full gallery of images from the Anacortes Relay 2009
Pictures of our team below.
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- A crowd gathers around the Booth
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- Darla, Pat & Rich cut down the long lines
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- Lisa Steams Milk
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- Derek & Pat Relax after setting up the booth
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We decided to try a new method of roasting. While certainly not our preferred method for developing the flavors in the beans, it gives a great visual of the changes occuring during roasting. The downfall of pan roasting is that you are primarily using conduction instead of all 3 forms of heat.
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Wow! I just read a fascinating article on the relationship between global weather patterns and coffee. Things such as sunspot and volcanic activity can dramatically affect the world-wide price of coffee. Check it all out here
Check out JOI’s blog
I am a big fan of turning lemons into lemonade. Thanks to our star sales team mate Mindy for taking this on and making some great lemonade!
Here’s the formula: Coffee+Muffins=Love
Celebrate Valentine’s Day by indulging in a free cup of Fidalgo Bay Coffee Nature’s Crest French Roast Organic Fair Trade Certified, High Elevation Shade Grown, Certified Organic, Tall and Dark Roasted, Rich and Handsome Gourmet Coffee! And a muffin tasting!
These are going to be tasting of the new gourmet PCC muffins.I don’t know much more at this time–I guess it’s all top secret.
These special coffee and muffin tastings will take place on Feb 13th, 14th and 15th at PCC Edmonds, Fremont, Issaquah, Redmond and West Seattle.
Call me if you have any questions or need directions to any PCC stores.
Love, Darryl
360-770-3208 my cell phone
For more info about PCC go to www.pccnaturalmarkets.com
Announcing a free value-added service for our clients
Many areas do not offer composting. We see this as a problem and as a result we have developed a solution. We have started a coffee grounds composting program. Our route driver will collect the grounds on his or her route truck and bring them back to our warehouse for local composting. After we get some volume, we will create a coffee-only composting facility onsite and sell the product. Here are the basic points
1. We will gather only coffee grounds (paper filters ok) from customers on our delivery routes from Seattle to Bellingham.
2. We will use gray 30 gallon tubs on our truck
3. We will collect weekly using bio-compostable can liners
4. We must not collect from a customer if there is trash in the compost. It is up to the customer to sort.
5. We will supply the liners to the customer at no charge, they need to supply their container at their site.
SUSTAINABILITY is just a bay away
Fidalgo Bay Coffee’s Roaster, Nathan Warner, is now in El Salvador through January 31st. Nathan said he was very excited to experience coffee farming first hand during the peak harvest time. His coffee blog is at 2ndcrack.com.
The Burke Museum is at the main north gate entrance to the UW on 45th and 15th. Take the 45th St exit off I-5, go east to UW (Greek Row) and you will enter at the north parking gate. The Burke is on the right. There is plenty of parking at the Burke parking lot.
Burke web site with more info: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Coffee: The World in Your Cup
Press Preview Summary
1.21.09
Program
- Tastings with Starbucks (Major Cohen) and Fidalgo Bay (Darryl Miller)
- Introductions by MaryAnn Barron Wagner (Burke Museum), Ruth Pelz (Burke Museum), and Edwin Martinez (Finca Vista Hermosa/ONYX Coffee)
¬Attendance (Media)
Kristin Dizon, Seattle PI (story will run on Sat. 1/24) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ae/397243_coffee24.html
Tan Vinh, Seattle Times (story will run on Sat. 1/24) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm…t24coffee.html
Alison Ingham, North Seattle Herald Outlook (story will run week of February 2)
Ana Kinkaid, American Express/Seattle Examiner (story will run online -?)
Jeremy Richards/Dave Beck, KUOW (interview with Edwin Martinez will air Fri. 1/23) http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=16771 Cafe Selvanica made it on air with Edwin Martinez. This piece is near the end of the stream on the clip of news stories.
Phillippa Kassover/April Ryan/Erin Lodi, UWTV
Miles Small, Coffee Talk Magazine
Joel Schwartz/Vince Stricherz/Sandra Hines, UW News and Info
Attendance (Sponsors and Partners)
Katie Kiefner/Alisa Martinez/Nicole Fallat/Major Cohen, Starbucks Coffee
Lisa Syravong, WA Wilderness Coalition
Terry Rustan, Program on the Environment, UW
Max Savishinsky, UW College of Arts and Sciences
Josh Tewksbury, UW Biology
Darryl Miller/Mindy Otterstedt/Nathan Warner, Fidalgo Bay Coffee www.fidalgobaycoffee.com
Edwin Martinez/Nina Martinez/Gabriel Rodriguez/Ashley Rodriguez, Finca Vista Hermosa (ONYX Coffee) http://fincavistahermosa.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/fvh-burke-museum-opening-weekend/
MaryAnn Barron/Julia Swan/Ruth Pelz/Karin Hoffman/Amy Fortier, Burke Museum
We are making some progress digging ourselves out with special thanks to our neighbor Cascade Stone Supply who cleared the big stuff from our parking lot and got a semi unstuck yesterday. However, there is more snow forecast for today! What a welcome relief it will be to get some rain. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the snow but its kind of like really hot weather, nice for a while, but then lets get back to normal. I do wish that with all this work getting around in the snow these past few days we get a white Christmas. It kinda feels like we deserve it. I hope you have a Merry Christmas.
