Higher Grounds Trading Co. located in Traverse City, MI is proud to be Michigan’s first 100% fair trade & organic certified coffee roastery. Exceptional coffee from a world of good friends. That’s right, friends: they visit the farms; meet with growers—even if that means traveling dirt roads, past washed-out bridges, through riverbeds, and up mountainsides. Drinking coffee together, they talk about the best ways to keep their farms sustainable and profitable.