Day 51 - Tastefair

After our Geopolitics lecture today, Heather asked if I want to join Mingli and her to a Fairtrade fair, called "Tastefair". Was a bit reluctant at first, cause I was still recovering from a week odd of travelling, but the idea of finding out more about Fairtrade, especially for future lessons, made me decided to go take a look.

Trains on the Circle line. Much wider, as compared to those on the Piccadily Line. The same platform holds trains that runs on three different lines, in which at least 1/3 of each lines over lap. I have no idea behind such rationale.

Other than brochures and handouts, there wasn't much about Fairtrade, but there was this coffee roasting demonstration by CaféDirect. So why not take a look anyway.

Pictures of farmers who are happy about the Fairtrade system. Apparently, the premium is not paid in cash, but rather, used for social purposes.

A real coffee tree.

In a few years, they will grow as tall as the one before.

They will take a few more years to grow bigger.

The demonstration was interesting, especially when they talked about cupping - tasting the coffee to determine it's flavour. The person who did the demonstration was from Mexico, and was formally a coffee farmer, till he was trained to be a cupper by CaféDirect. Hmm, gathered some interesting insights about Fairtrade.