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What Goes Into a Coffee’s Price?

May 26, 2022

As we move through a year of volatile, ultra-high C market prices shaking up global markets, we’ve seen occasions where roaster partners find coffees at lower prices than ours. We…

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What Forward Booking Looks Like for Us in 2022

May 4, 2022

As a shockingly volatile C market, local labor shortages, climate change, and high costs of business from the farm level up combine to roil global coffee markets, forward booking has…

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On Naturals & a Sense of Place

February 1, 2022

From Aleco Chigounis, Co-Founder & CEO Naturally processed coffees, or sundried process as they’re known in Ethiopia, are enigmatic fodder for conversation in the coffee industry. Every coffee professional has…

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Higher Base Rates, Flatter Pay Structures: How Pangoa & Ocumal Are Doing Things Different

September 14, 2021

  Published 09/14/2021 Tailoring Payment Structures to the Needs of a Group As we’ve discussed in pretty much every one of our previous pieces about paying for coffee, different groups…

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Carina & Fabian of Red Fox Sourcing Talk History & the Future in Peru, Colombia, & Mexico

August 4, 2021

As we continue working to spotlight voices from producing countries, we were excited to interview Red Fox’s own Carina Barreda and Fabian Viveros Léon in the Foxhole. Fabian and Carina…

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Red Fox Coffee Merchants Origin & Shipment Update: Q3 2021

July 6, 2021

Hello friends, coming to you as we enter the third quarter of 2021. We’ve put together a report on the current state of coffee affairs in the areas of the…

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Casimiro García López of Pluma on Community Origins & Modern Challenges

June 23, 2021

We were excited to be able to interview Casimiro García López of Pluma de Oaxaca, as well as his son Omar, face-to-face in Oaxaca. A second generation coffee farmer, Casimiro…

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Decentralization & Community in Oaxaca Coffee Sourcing

June 10, 2021

What makes Oaxaca unique?  The Oaxaca sourcing landscape is uniquely decentralized, presenting both challenges and opportunities for us as a sourcing company and for the communities and families we work…

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Prudencio of Valle Inca, Peru on Building Trust & Community

May 26, 2021

Prudencio (Jose Prudencio Saenz Vargas) is the widely respected leader of Valle Inca in Cusco, Peru, one of our largest and most important relationships in the world. A Calca native,…

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