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 harvesting season, all of the farms provide child care services...
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 de Café California has been working in...
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 coffees to producers and working with them on...
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 North to South. Mzuzu Cooperative Union members...
El Salvador El Molinito - Coffee of the Month May 2020 El Molinito coffee comes from El Molino farm, one of the most important and significant estates of the JASAL group that sits amongst the Apaneca Ilamatepec mountain range, part of the Cordelliera...
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 is grown on terroir that is provably excellent for...
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 situated in one of the best zones for growing coffee, due...
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 farmers deliver the cherries from mid-afternoon,...
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 majority of coffee in Cuba is grown in one of two regions...
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 100 tons. The Bayukidul Estate has also become...
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 was split in 1906, Ocotopeque lies in the western part...