GREAT COFFEE, FROM SOIL TO CUP It is important for any coffee enthusiast and for anyone discovering the fascinating world of coffee to understand the essentials of how it is actually made - from soil to cup. Despite the usual routine behind...
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ExpoEspeciales Trade Fair in Bogotá, Colombia
After working for nearly six months in different cities across the US, our team finally met for the first time in person during our latest trip to Colombia. It was a mutually reassuring feeling of having made the right decisions in terms...
Grower's Tale: Don Oscar + La Mirella
Don Oscar, along with his wife Francisca, manage this organic micromil located in the Central Region of Costa Rica, characterized by its fertility due to its proximity to the Poaz Volcano. They are the third-generation of a coffee producing family...
Grower's Tale: The Harries Family + Orestes
Oreti, meaning "a place of danger and raw beauty" in Maori language (the original founders came from New Zealand), is located in the Thika Plateau in Kenya, where the Harries family have been since 1904. Boyce Harries is the fourth-generation...
Grower's Tale: TOARCO + Pedamaran
TOARCO, a Japanese-Indonesian joint-venture, owns and manages the Pedamaran Plantation and also purchases wet-parchment (at 40% moisture) coffee beans from small producers. To put things in perspective, traditional coffee is sold when moisture content reaches and ideal level of 11%....
Grower's Tale: San Agustín + La Ilusión
La Ilusión's coffee is grown by Don Rosevel Ortiz and his family. In his own farm, located in the municipality of San Agustin within the state of Huila, Colombia, Don Rosevel - as he is known in his hometown - produces...
Grower's Tale: Motozintla + Santa Fe
Finca Santa Fe was founded by Mexicans in 1855, and was acquired by German immigrants in 1920, at which point the name was changed to Finca La Esperanza. In 1990 the estate was bought by Mexicans again and the Name...
Grower's Tale: COOPAC + Kivu
Rwanda’s western side is bounded by Lake Kivu, Africa’s sixth largest freshwater lake, spreading across the Great Rift Valley as it fuses with the surrounding volcanic geography. The extensity and mysticism of the lake, the raised beds where coffee is...
Grower's Tale: Roger + Buena Vista
Don Roger E. Herrera was born in Ocotal Nueva Segovia on September 29th, 1961. After he finished High School in 1983, he began to grow coffee, working in the coffee farm he inherited from his late father. He belongs to the third...
Grower's Tale: Ethiopian Coffee Exchange (ECX) + Aricha
The ECX was started in 2008 to help protect farmers from market forces that might prevent them from making a living. Most of the coffee in Ethiopia is produced by smallholders who own 0.7 hectares; bumper crops often lead to...