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Rohan Marley's Mystic Morning Coffee

Rohan Marley -- son of Bob Marley -- founded Marley Coffee partly to honor his father's memory.

"Bob Marley had always said he would return to farming one day," says the Marley Coffee website, "but his destiny was filled with the passion for music, and he never had the chance. With Marley Coffee, Bob's son, Rohan and friend Shane Whittle fulfill this dream and offers his family's treasures to the world."

The Marley Coffee farm is a 52 acre private estate in the lush Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Each bean is sustainably grown, ethically farmed and organic. Marley blends them into delicious brews like the sultry and sweet Jammin Java, One Love -- their floral and brightly acidic import from Ethiopia, "the birthplace of coffee," and Mystic Morning, which is full bodied and particularly divine through a French press.

Marley Coffee also happens to have another kind of character; the Marley Coffee Foundation provides soccer fields and camps to coffee-producing communities around the world, and every bag of beans you buy helps support their mission. If you're going to drink coffee, and I certainly am, why not take your habit a step beyond fair trade and actually do good with your addiciton?

Just pour yourself a cup, put on "Three Little Birds" by his father Bob and try to be in a bad mood. I challenge you.

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