This coffee comes from the Igale AMCOS (the local term for a cooperative, abbreviated from Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society) in the Mbozi district of Songwe. Specifically, 443 producers from the villages of Idiwili, Ilomba, Iyula, Idunda, Ipyana and Igale contributed cherry. This Tanzania Igale Coffee Club Limited Edition is a limited read more
This coffee comes from the Igale AMCOS (the local term for a cooperative, abbreviated from Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society) in the Mbozi district of Songwe. Specifically, 443 producers from the villages of Idiwili, Ilomba, Iyula, Idunda, Ipyana and Igale contributed cherry. Traditionally, the Igale AMCOS has collected home-processed parchment. But read more
This coffee comes from the farm of Marvin Monge Valverde, a fifth-generation coffee producer who inherited his farm from his grandfather. Today, Marvin and his sons tend the land and trees, which are a mix Bourbon, Caturra and Catuai. The land is under constant renovation and improvement, as Marvin and read more
Organic farming is a family business in southern Huila. Producers are proud to create high-quality, certified coffees from this specific denomination of origin. The Café Origen producer association has 109 members in the Huila municipalities of San Agustín, Acevedo and Pitalito. Their main priority for working together is to consolidate read more
Our house decaf is a multiple-origin blend named in honor of that lovely blue flower that blooms before sunrise, is vibrant all day and calls it quits by sundown. The 19th century poet Elizabeth Akers Allen wrote of the morning glory: “ … your fragile cups unfold Before the light read more
In 1992, with help from organizers affiliated with the Catholic church, 359 coffee producers came together to form the Comunidades Indigenas de la Region de Simojovel de Allende, S.S.S. (CIRSA) association. Within a few years, CIRSA had earned Organic and Fairtrade certification. More recently, it was able to purchase land read more
Colombia is the rare country that produces coffee all year long, thanks to the variety of its geography, altitudes and microclimates. Colombia has 22 coffee-growing regions, and each is celebrated for qualities attributed to its terroir, varieties and processing practices. Huila, for example, is known for juicy, fruity coffees with read more
Amuliba Estate was planted in the mid 1950s by Norm Plant, a respected Australian expatriate who also planted the first trees on the Sigri Plantation, which borders Amuliba, and pioneered the use of the Aqua Pulper (a de-pulping machine) in the Western Highlands in the 1950s. In March 1978, Amuliba read more
Timuza is produced by a group of certified farmers within the Timuza/Namura cooperative, with New Guinea Highlands Coffee Exports (NGHCE), InterAmerican’s sister company in Papua New Guinea. The group consists of 207 coffee families, who together farm 274 hectares. The soil is loamy and rich with volcanic ash, the weather read more
Approximately 3,000 farming families are part of the Central Fronteriza del Norte de Cafetaleros (CENFROCAFE), a cooperative that offers members access to training, financing and agronomy advice aimed at increasing yields and quality—with the aim of increasing producers’ earnings. The cooperative also gives each member extraordinarily more power and market read more
