At SCA Expo this year, we’ll be spreading the word about NKG Bloom! We’re eager for more of our customers and the industry to understand this initiative, which is our long-term investment in smallholder coffee farmers. Through full-time, dedicated NKG colleagues, NKG Bloom offers farmers the services and resources they read more
With the arrival of April, we're now eagerly awaiting this year’s fresh-crop coffees from Kenya! We recently chatted with Christophe Brinker, our colleague at NKG East Africa, who works with producers in Kenya and Tanzania, to get a better understanding of this season and learn what we can expect from read more
Kenya NKG Bloom Nguvu is as much a favorite with our Trade team as it is with our Quality Control. The most recent arrival notes from the cupping table gush: “Passion fruit, nectarine, chocolate, tropical, floral, savory, creamy body, bright acidity.” But there’s much more to love about this coffee read more
“We need a solution that feeds the most mouths without endangering the planet,” writes Maximo Torero, chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. “Finding a workable plan requires looking at food systems holistically — a major departure from the current siloed approach.” He then offered NKG Bloom as an example.
NKG Bloom is an initiative of Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) to ensure the future of green coffee supplies by providing smallholder coffee farmers with the resources and services they need to run their farms at full potential and enter pathways out of poverty. How does it work? And how can read more
International Coffee Day is a celebration of the drink and our industry — which by necessity connects and relies on an astonishing variety of humans and entities, from individuals and conglomerates to cooperatives, small businesses, machinery at the scale of skyscraper-sized container ships and careful, by-hand efforts. From our perspective read more
Kenya is now the fourth country in which the NKG BLOOM initiative has been implemented. We’re excited to share that coffees from producers enrolled in the program are now available for purchase, and fresh-crop Kenya NKG BLOOM Nguvu will arrive around March 2022. Recently, we spoke with Nicholas Kabare, the read more
*This post was originally published at nkgbloom.coffee. How is NKG BLOOM different from certifications? Catalina Eikenberg, head of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) Sustainable Business Unit, and Silvana Paniagua, a principal at NewForesight, a Netherlands consultancy firm that considers tough sustainability challenges, discussed this question during a recent webinar. We read more
