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Hagenbuch leads the Vermont Bird Friendly Maple program and is helping extend the program to Maine and New York.   It might be 3,950 miles from the Bird Friendly co-op family coffee farms of UCA del Rio Coco in the Northern Highlands of Nicaragua to Hi Vue Maples Bird Friendly family sugarbush in Richford, Vermont but there is a connection - birds!  The same Vermont forests that provide the maple sap to be boiled down to syrup also support great numbers of bird species during the summer nesting season. Steve Hagenbuch - farmer, forester, and founder of the Bird Friendly®...

In 2023 I will be recommending organizations that contribute to a 'friendly' ecosystem by providing essentials that nurture the Earth we all share while supporting family farming and family-owned food providers across the Americas.

Save 5% when you buy Audubon Vermont certified Bird Friendly maple syrup and our Bird & Beans coffee! Save birds when you buy Audubon Vermont maple syrup and Birds & Beans coffee; produced and grown on ‘Sugar Bush’ that preserves bird nesting habitat and on family coffee farm co-ops where our migratory birds spend the winter in an environment where local and migratory birds thrive. This offer comes in two easy steps: To purchase Bird Friendly Coffee: visit our website and make a one-time purchase of coffee, using code BFCOFFEE5. To purchase Bird Friendly Maple: visit this website or select from one...

Birds & Beans Bird-Friendly Coffee is Organic, Bird Friendly, and Fair Trade-certified. Read what is all about Fair Trade Coffee, here.