Dean Cycon, coffee pioneer, To Speak at South Hadley Library
The South Hadley Public Library is pleased to host Dean Cycon on Monday,
August 2 at 6:30 as part of its "Go Green At Your Library" summer series
of adult programs. The speaker is the owner of Dean’s Beans Organic
Coffee Company, a certified 100% organic, fair trade and kosher coffee
roasting operation based in Orange, MA. Cycon has over twenty-five years
of development work and activism in indigenous communities, including
coffee villages, around the world. Mr. Cycon is a co-founder of Coffee
Kids (non-profit development group), and of Cooperative Coffees, the
world’s first fair trade roaster’s cooperative. He created Dean’s Beans
to prove that business can promote positive economic, social and
environmental change at the third world source, and be profitable at the
same time.
Cycon is also the author of "JavaTrekker: Dispatches from the World of
Fair Trade Coffee", a memoir and adventure covering his travels to ten
coffee-producing countries around the world.
This program is free and open to the public. Coffee samples and copies
of his book will be available that evening. The South Hadley Public
Library is located at 27 Bardwell Street; for more information call
538-5045.
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