Nicaragua, Fincas Mierisch, San Jose - Coffee of the Month September 2020 At Fincas Mierisch it is a crucial part of their operations to make sure that their workers are happy and paid fairly. Since most coffee pickers live on the farm with their families during a...
Mexico, UCIPA, SHG Fancy Estate - Coffee of the Month August 2020 UCIPA was established in 2000, with 24 founders, all of them from Pantelhó. The objective was to organize themselves in order to gain better trading opportunities. For more than 20 years Exportadora...
Honduras, Guara Verde - Coffee of the Month July 2020 Guara Verde, or green macaw, nods to Honduras’ national bird and comes to us from the specialty division of the export company Becamo. A new Guara Selection program from Becamo focuses on tracing...
Malawi, Mzuzu Cooperative - Coffee of the Month June 2020 Malawi is a landlocked country located in between Zambia and Mozambique and shares a border with Tanzania in the north. It is characterised by the Great Rift Valley which traverses the country from...
Rwanda, Kinini Washing Station, Kabuye - Coffee of the Month April 2020 The Kabuye lot is a separation from amongst the 633 farmers that are currently using the Kinini washing station, chosen from trees at altitudes of 1800 – 2100masl on south facing slopes. The coffee...
India, Biccode Estate - Coffee of the Month March 2020 The Biccode Estate is made up of 308 acres of land. 160 of which are used for coffee, 108 acres are forest, 10 acres of rubber and the remainder used for plantation buildings. The whole estate is...
Tanzania, Ipunga AMCOS - Coffee of the Month February 2020 The Toroka FG was established in 2017 and then converted into an AMCOS (Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Society) in 2018. The water for the processing is used from the nearby Insunka River.The...
Cuba, Serrano Lavado - Coffee of the Month January 2020 The first coffee plantation appeared in Cuba in 1748. But the bigger cultivation started in 1789 by thousands of French coffee farmers that had to escape from the armed slave revolt in Haiti. The...
East Java, -Bayukidul Estate - Coffee of the Month - December 2019 The Bayukidul Estate is a 100 hectare coffee plantation located in the heart of East Java in and amongst small hold clove and sugar cane farms. The 100 hectares yields an overall production of about...
Honduras, Fuerza La Labor - Coffee of the Month - November 2019 Fuerza La Labor is a community driven coffee, the coffees are chosen from the better cupping coffees from families within the La Labor town in Ocotepeque, Honduras. Originally part of Copan until it...