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--Apple-Mail=_A95D416B-014A-4C20-90AB-1D3DE09DA987 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 JEFF, THANKS so much for this response, and I will try to find and send you= the rest of this discourse from NatureNS naturalists. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville. On Mar 25, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Jeff Moore <jeff@justuscoffee.com> wrote: > Hi Jim, > Yes, Just Us! did do "Bird-Friendly" coffee when the Irving Centre = first opened. > As you know, all of our coffee is certified organic and hence shad= e-grown and free > of pesticides. While it is bird-friendly, in a general sense, it does not= mean that the > farmers and/ or their co-ops know how to optimize these habitats for bird= s generally > or specific birds of concern. Some of our producers may be certified Bird= Friendly and > others may be interested.=20=20 > I'll pass this on to Joey Pittoello, our Director of Coffee, and he= can follow up on it. > Thanks for bringing us into the discussion, Jeff >=20=20 > Jeff Moore MSW, DCL, LLD, > Co-founder/Member Owner > Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-operative >=20=20 > PEOPLE and the PLANET before PROFITS >=20=20 > From: Jim Wolford [jimwolford@eastlink.ca] > Sent: March 23, 2015 5:33 PM > To: naturens; Peter Romkey > Cc: Debra Moore; Jeff Moore > Subject: more on Birds and Coffee >=20 > At the moment I am tech-challenged here in dealing with my e-mail system,= which won=92t allow me to send all that was before Ian=92s comment below. = But I am interested in what others wrote here about Bird-Friendly Coffee, = i.e., certified by the Smithsonian Institute in the U.S. The coffee sold a= t the Irving Environmental Sciences Centre at Acadia University, after it o= pened in the early 2000s (2002?), offered this kind of coffee, but I am not= current about whether that is still true. Also, I thought that Bird-Frien= dly Coffee had been supplied by Just Us Coffee Roasters. Perhaps the Moore= s or Peter Romkey can set me and us straight on this? >=20 > Sorry about my ongoing tech challenges, but thanks to everyone who has co= ntributed to this interesting and increasingly crucial topic. Also I want = to go back and review last week=92s episode of The Nature of Things, =93Son= gbird SOS=94 =97cbc.ca/thenatureofthings/ . >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> From: Ian Manning <ianmanning4@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] more on Birds and Coffee >> Date: March 23, 2015 at 3:37:10 PM ADT >> To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>=20 >> For those interested, I found this document buried in the Smithsonian Na= tional Zoo website. >>=20 >> http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migffratorybirds/coffee/Norms-English_1.p= df >>=20 >> There's specific instructions about canopy closure, strata, and floral d= iversity. Especially interesting that the dominant shade tree has to be a n= ative species, and occupy no greater than 60% of the total shade trees.=20 >>=20 >> Ian --Apple-Mail=_A95D416B-014A-4C20-90AB-1D3DE09DA987 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html charset= =3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-= mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">JEFF, THANKS so much f= or this response, and I will try to find and send you the rest of this disc= ourse from NatureNS naturalists. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<div><b= r><div><div>On Mar 25, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Jeff Moore <<a href=3D"mailto:j= eff@justuscoffee.com">jeff@justuscoffee.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class= =3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div fpstyle=3D"1"= ocsi=3D"0" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: n= ormal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; l= ine-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; tex= t-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -w= ebkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style=3D"directi= on: ltr; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:= 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Hi Jim,</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; marg= in-top: 0px;"> Yes, Just Us! did do "Bird-Fri= endly" coffee when the Irving Centre first opened.</div><div style=3D"margi= n-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> As yo= u know, all of our coffee is certified organic and hence shade-grown and fr= ee</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">of pesticides.&= nbsp;While it is bird-friendly, in a general sense, it does not mean that t= he</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">farmers and/ or= their co-ops know how to optimize these habitats for birds generally</div>= <div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">or specific birds of co= ncern. Some of our producers may be certified Bird Friendly and</div><= div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">others may be interested= . </div><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">&nbs= p; I'll pass this on to Joey Pittoello, our Di= rector of Coffee, and he can follow up on it.</div><div style=3D"margi= n-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Thanks= for bringing us into the discussion, Jeff</div><div><p style=3D"margi= n-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><div style=3D"font-size: 13px; f= ont-family: Tahoma;"><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><f= ont size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">Jeff Moore MSW, DCL, LLD,</font></div><d= iv style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"= Arial">Co-founder/Member Owner</font></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px= ; margin-top: 0px;"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">Just Us! Coffee Roaster= s Co-operative</font></div><p style=3D"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;= "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"></font> </p><div style=3D"margin-bot= tom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font face=3D"Arial"><font size=3D"3"><u><em><s= trong>PEOPLE</strong><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>and= the<