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USA

Sacred Grounds Coffee (AK)  formerly Tlingit land

Native Coffee Traders (NY)  Patachogue nation

Thunder Island Coffee Roasters (NY)  Shinnecock-owned

Tribal Grounds Coffee (NC) (was part of Cherokee land)

Ekowah Coffee (OK) formerly Osage or Kiowa land

Spirit Mountain Roasting Co. (CA) (on Quechan Land)

O-Gah-Pah (MO) Quapaw-owned

Arcadia Valley Roasting Company (MO) formerly Osage or Illini land

Expedition Joe Coffee Company

Takelma Roasting Co. (OR)

Kawi Cafe, not a roaster (OK) Cherokee Nation

Yeego Coffee (Kinłání Dookʼoʼoosłííd Biyaagi) Navajo-owned

Native Blend Coffee (CA)

Beaver Tales Coffee (local pick up in Skagit County, WA)

Salish Grounds (WA) (formerly land of the  Lushootseed people)

Bison Coffeehouse (OR) (formerly land of the Chinook people)

Star Village Coffee (NV) (formerly Washoe land)

Native Harvest (MN) White Earth Reservation, Ojibwe people

Spotted Horse Coffees (MN) (formerly Ojibwe land)

Canada

Spirit Bear Coffee Co.

Birch Bark Coffee Company

Cree Coffee Co.

Native American Coffee

Kaapittiaq

Black Bear Espresso

Australia

Australian Indigenous Coffee

Dreamtime Tuka

Waddi Springs

Zipella

Refugees’ Stories of Resistance as Told by Their Desert Gardens: a Photo Project by Henk Wildschut

Defiant gardens are gardens created in extreme or difficult environmental, social, political, economic, or cultural conditions. These gardens represent adaptation to challenging circumstances, but they can also be viewed from other dimensions as sites of assertion and affirmation.

‘At one point, I discovered a place that was a veritable oasis of colour. There were so many flowering plants that I thought I had stumbled on a florist’s shop. On enquiry, I learned that these sea of flowers were the property of Walid Mehre. He assured me that the plants were not for sale, but he occasionally gave them as presents to his neighbours. Walid told me that he loves his plants as though they were his children. Flowering plants are the most beautiful thing in the world, he explained. Every morning, he drinks tea in the garden with his wife. Then spends the morning caring for his plants, watering them and pruning them wherever necessary. Walid speaks to his plants. They seem to answer him too. The cultivation of plants is, he feels, vital to his mental survival. He needs a distraction to help him forget all the misery for a while. The sheer quantity of plants he has around him betrays the horrors of the past from which he has escaped. 

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