In Sumatra, Kokowagayo is a women-owned and women-managed coffee cooperative on the Aceh province. Kokowagayo has 567 farmer members from seven villages in the Bener Meriah districts. Kokowagayo is an abbreviation for Koperasi Kopi Wanita Gayo. The group has 18 women in leadership roles — a chairwoman and business manager, read more
Mexico Zongolica coffee is also called WPZ — "Woman Power Zongolica!" — by the 20 women who grew and produced it. WPZ comes from women in the Zongolica region of Veracruz, Mexico. The region is deeply influenced by the rich, ancestral heritage of its people, most of whom identify as read more
In Peru, Central Cooperativas Agrarias Cafetaleras, or COCLA Ltda., is a second-degree cooperative, meaning it’s a larger representative of 21 smaller cooperatives. In total, it represents more than 3,500 coffee-farming families. COCLA was formed 53 years ago, on July 26, 1967, by a group of coffee farmers looking to secure read more
Fazenda Dutra is a family run and owned coffee farm in São João do Manhuaçu, 300 kilometers inland from the east cost of Brazil. In the 1950s, Jose Dutra Sobrinho inherited a 1-hectare coffee farm that he worked and developed for more than 40 years. He embraced the 1986 price read more
The Association of Indigenous Producers Asoarhuaco is a group of producers who are dedicated to cultivating their farms in culturally traditional ways that emphasize a balance with, and deep respect for, nature. The Arhuaco, Kogi, Wiwa and Kankuamo — four aboriginal peoples — have peacefully lived together in Colombia’s Sierra read more
Colombia Sierra Nevada TAYRONACA Fairtrade Organic The Cesar department in Northern Colombia is a Spanish take on the Chimila indigenous word Chet-tzar or Zazare, meaning “calm water.” This is a reference to the Cesar River which extends through most of the department in this valley created by the Sierra Nevada de Santa read more
ASOPCAFA coffee producers in the village of La Union, and all around Aipe-Huila, benefit from the mountainous region's rich soil and perfect climate and ecosystem for growing coffee. Aipe is surrounded by the Magdalena, Aipe, Baché and Pata rivers, and the highest mountain in the area reaches to 2,300 meters read more
Muxbal Estate is a stunning, mountain-top coffee farm in Unión Juárez that takes its name from the Mayan phrase for “place surrounded by clouds.” Muxbal is 236 hectares literally at the border of Guatemala. Half is planted with coffee and half is a protected ecological reserve of rainforest, rivers, springs read more
Microlots are limited offerings that represent the taste of a place or a moment. This may mean one farm, or a portion of a farm, the seasonal work of a cooperative or a day’s delivery at a mill. From Mexico this year, we’re delighted to offer four, 25-bag microlots that read more
Chiapas Zafiro Strictly High Grown (SHG) is a regional blend from one of Mexico’s largest and oldest coffee-producing areas, with some farms dating back a century. Specifically, it comes from the nearly 2,000 producers who deliver to the Chicomuselo and Comalapa buying stations. These neighboring villages at the Mexico-Guatemala border read more
