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Alex

Win a Rocket Garden – You can be a grower too…

posted at 11:03am, 08 Sep 09 by Alex [ 0 comments ]

Our new look packs feature tools used by growers to cultivate and handpick the crops for our products. To celebrate our new look we have teamed up with Rocket Gardens to offer you the chance to grow your own too!

A rocket garden is a box full of baby organic plants, delivered from the nursery direct to your door. All you have to do is pop your baby plants straight into their new home to grow your own instant organic kitchen garden.

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win a Rocket Garden like this, and more!

We are really excited about this prize, and thank Rocket Gardens for offering it. Many of the growers Cafédirect works with have their own “kitchen gardens”; coffee, tea or cocoa is the cash crop used to pay school fees, healthcare and other costs, but there is often an area in the smallholding where bananas, papaya, maize and other vegetables are grown.

The parallels don’t stop here!
There may be purist gardeners out there who think it’s somehow cheating to “pop your baby plants straight into their new home”, without going through the whole process of nurturing them from the seed. However, this same system operates in coffee co-operatives. This photo shows a seedling nursery in KNCU, Tanzania. It is a nursery for coffee seedlings. The co-operative nurtures seedlings until they are mature enough to be planted and replace old fruitless trees.

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coffee seedling nursery at KNCU

We’re giving you the chance to win a summer garden, a winter garden, herb garden, fruit garden, some handy gardening tools (not dissimilar to the tools on our packs) plus a garden for your local school plus a hamper full of new look Cafédirect drinks!

Click here to enter

Remember only Friends of Cafédirect may enter this competition, so if you are not already a friend join now

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