Smithsonian Bird Friendly

Bird Friendly® Certified Coffee

Bird Friendly® Coffee is coffee that comes from farms in Latin America that provide good forest-like habitat for birds. Rather than being grown on land that has been cleared of all other vegetation, Bird Friendly® Coffees are planted under a canopy of trees.

Because of the shaded forest-like setting created by these canopy trees, coffee produced this way is called shade grown. Not only are Bird Friendly® Coffees shade grown, they are also organic, meaning they're grown without the use of chemical pesticides which poison the environment.

Bird Friendly® Coffees are the only coffees on the market that are certified as shade grown and organic by an independent third-party inspector using criteria established by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center of the National Zoo.

These criteria are based on years of scientific research. Companies that sell Bird Friendly® Coffees contribute 25 cents per pound to support Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center research and conservation programs.

Portions paraphrased from “About Shade Grown Coffee,” Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, www.nationalzoo.si.edu, 2009.