Peru El Oso Fairtrade Organic is named after the Andean bear also known as the "bespectacled bear," due to the eyeglass-like pattern around its eyes. This coffee comes to us from Cooperativa Agraria Frontera San Ignacio (COOPAFSI) in San Ignacio, Cajamarca. Specifically, it's the work of 40 COOPAFSI producer members. read more
Mexico NKG Bloom Yajalon Decaf Mountain Water Process is a limited-edition, fully traceable decaffeinated coffee. This offering was developed by sister company Exportadora de Cafe California (ECC). It is grown in Frontera, Chiapas in the Sierra Madre bordering — and sharing the same microclimate with — the Huehuetenango mountains. Further, read more
Mexico NKG Bloom El Dragon Anaerobic Natural is grown in Villacorzo, Chiapas. An interesting microclimate occurs here, where the edges of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas Mountain range and the Central Depression meet. The land lies in the rain shadow of the mountains, creating a seasonally dry climate with lower read more
Guatemala Huehuetenango Pioneers is a coffee born out of partnerships. The coffee is produced by approximately 450 members of Comal and Asdeflor Cooperatives in La Democracia Comal. Recognizing excellence in quality and in the communities that produce it, exporter UNEX chose this coffee for a collaboration between their Farmer Aid read more
Mexico NKG Bloom Los Altos is the work of 102 indigenous women from five municipalities of the Los Altos de Chiapas region of Mexico. They have, for generations, been custodians of their traditional knowledge and culture. They have also been instrumental in preserving coffee production in Mexico. The rust pandemic in read more
Mexico HG EP Chiapas Organic is grown in one of Mexico’s most well-known coffee producing regions. Bordering Guatemala, this highland region is punctuated by steep mountains and dense rainforests. The highest altitudes – reaching up to 1,600 meters above sea level – run across through the length of the state, read more
Ethiopia Sidamo Natural G2 is grown in the Oromia region of western Guji. This region produces a wide variety of flavor profiles, which makes sense, given Sidamo is the largest coffee growing region in Ethiopia. (The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) – the government-run body that manages smallholder coffee transactions, grading read more
Colombia ANEI Mujeres Tejedoras Fairtrade Organic is the most recent offering from the Association of Indigenous Agroecology Producers (ANEI). ANEI was founded by Aurora Izquierdo, one of the first women of her generation to leave the indigenous Arhuaco community of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in pursuit of a higher read more
Kenya Ndogo is grown in the volcanic soils of Central Kenya on the slopes of the Mount Kenya and Aberdare Mountain Range. Just south of the equator, the Aberdare range spans the counties of Nyandarua, Nyeri, Muranga, Kiambu and Laikipia at an elevation of 4,001 meters. The range is heavily read more
Over the last two decades, Honduras transformed the quality of its coffees, and thus its reputation as a coffee origin, thanks to government incentives and the hard work of producers, exporters and farmer-support organizations. In 2011, Honduras overtook Guatemala to become the largest coffee producer in Central America, and today read more
