Besides coffee, there are brewings aplenty at Higher Grounds these days! The retail offerings now include a cornucopia of fair trade certified gift giving possibilities, including hand-made felted birds and puppets, gorgeous pearl and gemstone earrings crafted in the Himalayas, and Bolivian alpaca gloves, hats and scarves. Each items tells a little story, whether it is a pair of earrings crafted by orphaned children in Nicaragua so they can afford school or floral printed organic cloth aprons from One Mango Tree, a woman's sewing cooperative in Uganda.If you happen to be shopping for someone who has everything or maybe your family and friends have a mission to give beyond your usual scope, Run Across Ethiopia (a project of On The Ground) is offering the perfect present. Laced to a tiny hand-made ornament from Mexico, hangs a little card that reads something like: $50: Buys a desk with seats for three children at the Addis Ababa School. The donations range from modest sums to much much larger, depending on the budget, but this is a gift that truly keeps on giving, and puts the words of the heart into deeds, reaching beyond the boundaries of our local community to encompass the globe--a small step toward truly creating peace on earth.
The coffee bar will continue to host locally crafted items, like hand-made leather journals, Lavender Breezes Latte Lip Balm and Michigan-made ceramic mugs bearing the sun-circle company logo--a great gift for the coffee lover that loves Higher Grounds!
Of course, you can purchase whole bean or ground organic fair trade coffee by the pound, Palestinian Olive Oil and Divine Drinking Cocoa if your looking for something to please the palate. Stop in today and check us out! Besides coffee, there are b
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