Wouldn’t you like to wake up every morning knowing that you’re doing your part to preserve important bird habitat?

We think it’s such an important choice that we’ve organized a Golden Gate Bird Alliance Coffee Club to make buying and enjoying the right bird-friendly coffee a breeze. And if you’re not already drinking shade-grown organic coffee, you’ll be thrilled by the rich, clean flavor of Birds & Beans coffees. Birds & Beans coffees are certified as bird-friendly by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.

Golden Gate Bird Alliance volunteer Erica Rutherford is coordinating this effort. She will collect your orders. Then you can pick up your coffee once a month at either:

  • The GGBA Speaker Series in Berkeley, or
  • The GGBA office in Berkeley during office hours.

Birds & Beans is offering a great incentive by waiving the shipping charges for GGBA Coffee Club members. Golden Gate Bird Alliance is not charging any markup on these orders — you are getting the coffee at cost.

Take a look at the options below and join the club today.

 

Roasts 

12 oz.

2 lb.
Wood Thrush (Breakfast Roast)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Viennese Roast)
Scarlet Tanager (Dark Roast)

$8.50

$21.35
American Redstart (Light Roast)

$8.50

n/a
Baltimore Oriole (French Roast Decaf)

$9.55

$23.50

Note: All orders are shipped whole bean unless specified.
Ground coffee options include: Coarse, Extra Fine, Fine, or Medium grind.
There is no additional charge for grinding.

 

 

Birds & Beans Coffee

Details

  • Place your order and mail your check (made out to Birds and Beans Coffee) to Erica by the last day of the month for delivery during the third week of the following month.
    • Erica Rutherford, 17 Windward Hill, Oakland, CA 94618
  • Pick up your coffee either at the Speaker Series in Berkeley (every other month) or at the GGBA office.
  • Let Erica know if you want your orders to be renewed on a recurring monthly basis.
  • Contact Erica to make alternate payment arrangements such as e-check for recurring monthly orders.
  • Erica will email all coffee club members upon delivery. If you don’t use email, please assume that orders can be picked up at the Berkeley Speaker Series or the GGBA office during the third week of the month.
  • GGBA office hours for coffee pick-up are Monday and Wednesday, 9 am to noon and 1 pm to 6 pm, and Fridays by appointment with Ben Sisson, Office Manager (bsisson@goldengatebirdalliance.org).
  • The address is 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite G (at Blake) in Berkeley, phone: (510) 843-2222.
Questions? contact Erica at GGBAcoffee@gmail.com or (510) 502-1056 

For background on bird-friendly coffee, see these informative articles:

Make 2014 A year for Bird-friendly Coffee (GGBA blog) 

Bird-friendly Coffee Supports Critical Habitat (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Birds & Coffee Slide Show (Smithsonian/National Zoo)

Did you know? 

  • Many of the warbler, oriole, and flycatcher species that we love winter in the tropics and depend on forest habitat.
  • There aren’t laws that regulate which coffee can be labeled as shade-grown. Without careful shopping, your good intentions might be for naught.
  • Next to tobacco, conventionally grown (non-organic) coffee is sprayed with more chemicals than any other product consumed by humans.
  • Coffee-producing countries have some of the highest numbers of threatened bird species due to deforestation and loss of habitat.
  • Coffee is the largest US food import. Some 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world daily.