Fair Trade in Your Home

You can easily incorporate fair trade products into your home-life.

 Cook With Fair Trade Ingredients

• Divine Chocolate Recipes – Fair trade chocolate treats your family will enjoy.
• Equal Exchange Recipes – Drinks and desserts with your favorite fair trade ingredients.
• Peace Coffee Recipes – Delicious fair trade coffee-based treats.
• Sambazon Açai Recipes – Great recipes featuring the açai fruit.
• Fair Trade Cookbook – Ideas from the Fair Trade Foundation in the UK (note: not all ingredients will be available fair trade in North America)
• Just Desserts: 50 sweet surprises with Fair Trade ingredients, by Ralf Kabelitz, New Internationalist Fair Trade Cookbooks. 2003
• Cooking with Coffee: 60 recipes using Fair Trade Coffee, by Lucas Rosenblatt, Judith Meyer, and Edith Beckmann, New Internationalist Fair Trade Cookbooks. 2003

Host a Home Party

FTF members make it easy to bring fair trade products to an informal house party or as a fair trade home party consultant:

• Bead for Life Party - Learn about the women in Uganda who make B4L’s products, have fun trying on the jewelry, and "eradicate poverty one bead at a time."
• Bridge for Africa House Party - Bring friends together for an evening of great discussion on Africa and view, purchase, and learn about their quality handmade African products.
• Bright Hope International - Host a home party of fifteen or more people for a time of learning, sharing, and practical steps in responding to the needs of the poor. Available only in Chicago, San Diego, and Atlanta (for now).
• Equal Exchange – Equal Exchange offers a House Party Kit, including opportunities for friends to gather, sip, relax, and learn about fair trade and coffee. The Kit includes Party instructions, coffee to brew, stickers, a cocoa recipe booklet, Java Jive newsletters, and coupons.
• Fair World Designs Party - Fair World Designs will come to your place of choice and offer shopping from a rainbow of handbags and jewelry. Hostesses earn 10% of the total Party sales.
• Flavours of Life - To celebrate differences and explore other cultures, Flavours of Life brings fair trade items from their store to your home. Currently only available in the New London, CT area
• Jolica Home Parties - Enjoy a journey to Chile, Indonesia, Thailand, and other exotic places to admire beautiful jewelry and accessories handcrafted by skilled artisans. The pride taken in creating these works of art is evident in the quality and unique designs.
• Pachamama Home Parties - Bring awareness to your community and sell beautiful crafts by artists of the world, while generating income and helping others at the same time. Consultants Receive a Fair Trade Suitcase of samples, educational materials, and ordering information.
• Trade as One Gatherings - Hosts receive a DVD about Trade as One and the people behind the products, an ideas manual, product catalog, forms, and sample product kits available for purchase.
• World Village Marketplace Parties - Sell great fair trade products, raise money for orphans in Africa, educate people about fair trade, and provide an outlet for people in developing countries  - all by bringing World Village Fair Trade Marketplace goods to your friends. Available only in the Hampton Bays, NY area.
• WorldCrafts - Spend quality time with friends, raise awareness of a wonderful cause, and help lift people out of poverty all at the same time.
• WorldGoods Fair Trade - Fair Trade Fiestas are a great way to raise awareness, have fun, travel the world, and earn a percentage of the sales all from your own living room. Available in IL, MI, NJ, WI, and other locations.