The Muskrat Coffee Company

Our Muskrat Coffee is roasted here on the White Earth Reservation and bagged and sealed at the café. Drawing from different beans around the world, our suppliers participate in a fair trade exchange. The result is a truly distinct line of rich and diversely flavored coffees.

The Muskrat Coffee Company is owned by the LaDuke family and served in the Minwanjige Café in Callaway, as well as shipped all over the Upper Midwest and North America. The beans usually are roasted by Betty McDougal, or sometimes Janice Chilton and Winona LaDuke. We are committed to serving fair trade and organic coffees, because we believe that farmers should receive a fair price for their coffee, a price that allows them to be stewards of their land and water. We believe that their children should not be sprayed with poisons. It’s sort of that simple. We are committed to supporting other indigenous communities internationally. We know people should get a fair price for what they produce, and for their work.

About 90% of the coffee sold worldwide comes from big international conglomerates that pay little or no attention to the human needs of the workers producing their coffee. We at Muskrat are interested in the opposite: small farmers and communities who not only produce a quality coffee bean, but are able to support their local community through receiving a fair price for their coffee. Guaranteeing a fair trade price for coffee can mean the opportunity to have a donkey, to buy covering for a dirt floor, and to provide an education for a child in a coffee-producing community.

Read More about the commitment to global justice that you make when you drink Muskrat Coffee.