We had great trips to Honduras and Guatemala! You can still read our adventures at our blogspot!
Guatemala and Honduras Blog

Farmer to Farmer Trips to
Guatemala and Honduras
January 2012

Travel with a small group visiting places far off the tourist trail. These trips are led by Farmer to Farmer members that know these countries well. Farmer to Farmer offers a few partial scholarships for travel for those in need. > read more

We are excited to welcome to Minnesota and Wisconsin three Maya textile artists: Lucia, Yolanda and Rosa, along with the director of Oxlajuj Bátz´ – Thirteen Threads, a nonprofit focusing on education and empowerment of Maya women artists, to Minnesota and Wisconsin September 22-29,2011. There are several events planned where the women will speak about their lives, their community leadership work and show their beautiful hooked rugs. Mark your calendars!

Schedule of Events:
• Sept 22, 2011- 7 p.m. > read more

Our Huehuetenango Organic coffee has arrived (finally) from Guatemala. It is safe in the warehouse- all 20,000#. Amazing! We are roasting it up now.

We are anxiously awaiting our 2011 crops of coffee from Guatemala and Honduras. We are excited to be getting coffee from a new women’s coffee growing cooperative in Honduras. To learn more about this group read our summer2011 newsletter ( hit the newsletter button at the top of this page).
The prices of all of our coffees will be going up as of June 15th due to the price increase we paid the farmers this year. This is hard for us consumers but good for the coffee farmers. We are happy to see them getting a better price for all their hard work.

Jody Slocum, F2F Board member has been assisting Mary Anne Wise teaching rug hooking to Maya women in Guatemala. Since they taught their last class in March the women have been going great guns on their rugs. While in Guatemala they connected Diane Dreyfus to the Guatemala Rug Hooking World and Diane agreed to teach Yolanda and Rosa English! Yolanda and Rosa are the two students coming up to the U.S. in September for a Rug Hooking Exhibition. > read more

At the Schoolhouse at Simply Dunn
E4606 Ct Rd C
Downsville, WI (5 miles south of Menomonie, WI.)
For directions go to their website http://simply-dunn.com/
Don’t use mapquest! Ph 715-664-8368

Please join us for our Annual Meeting. We have an excellent speaker, Jeanne Duffy, from Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN), a Madison based microcredit organization serving Latin America. We’ll also be sharing stories from our trips to Honduras, Guatemala and Ecuador. The meeting, potluck and speaker are free and open to the public. > read more

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Guatemala and Honduras Blog

9 Days in Ecuador
January 11 – 20, 2011

Join Craig Adams and Lucy Altemus for 9 days in the Ecuador highlands. Craig and Lucy spent two years 2008 – 2010 serving in the U.S. Peace Corps and are planning this trip for 3 reasons. #1 to share and enjoy a beautiful country #2 to consider Ecuador as a retirement spot #3 to warm up

Cost: airfare $700, travel insurance $45, lodging (budget priced, clean, & comfy)$200, meals$160, travel within Ecuador (by bus, van & taxi, & one-way air flight from Loja to Quito ) $125, trip leaders Craig and Lucy$150, airport exit fee $48. > read more

Here are some updates and photos from projects and friends of Farmer to Farmer in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.

We arrived to find the lake level up between 9 to 12 feet! The beautiful new park completed last year is totally submerged. The torrential rains this summer that caused so many mud slides also filled the lake to the highest level in over 40 years.

statues in the park underwater > read more