Sharing the love

16 July 2010 | Posted by simon in All Good News, Banana lovers, Growers

Yesterday Oxfam sent an email asking their supporters to help save the Fairtrade banana. A few people have asked if Fairtrade banana’s are in danger of disappearing from NZ stores. The answer is no – not if we can demonstrate that enough kiwi shops and consumers want them.

We’re getting great support from everyone buying All Good Fairtrade bananas and all the stores that stock and promote them and we’re incredibly grateful for that. We want to celebrate this.

But we do need to sell more to show the stores that don’t stock them it’s worthwhile for everyone to get behind Fairtrade. And, although we are getting great support we still aren’t quite selling all the bananas we get from our growers in El Guabo each week. The catch is that we reckon if we were in a few more stores we would.

So, if you want to help the best way is to accentuate the positive. Tell those stores that do sell All Good Fairtrade bananas how much you appreciate being able to buy from them and tell those that don’t stock them how much you’d appreciate them if they did.

Here are a few of the stores that are backing Fairtrade bananas and the people who grow them. If you want to find out where you can buy All Good bananas click here.

Dad, Abel Ugarte, Mom, Elizabeth Urdiales sons Abel Alberto and Axel Andres and baby Eimy Elizabeth all live on the family farm in El Guabo where Abel and Elizabeth grow the bananas you can buy from Commonsense Organics in Wellington.

We took this photo to show how much they appreciate the support of stores like Commonsense and the people who buy our bananas from them.

Angel Iniguez and his daughter Daniella.

This is Angel’s family farm in Tenguel, El Guabo. You’ll find his bananas in the New World stores that have got behind Fairtrade. A big thankyou to New World from Angel and Daniella.

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