May 1, 2020

The Foxhole

Scroll down to see all episodes of the Foxhole! In this episode we are joined by special guest Casimiro García López and his son Omar of Pluma de Oaxaca. A…

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Paying for Coffee

FOB is An Exporting Metric, Not A Farmgate Benchmark

April 16, 2020

FOB price has become a popular metric for assessing whether a producer was paid fairly for their coffee, but what does the FOB (or free on board) price really tell…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Santuario

April 2, 2020

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to discuss it. While that series looked at…

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Spotify

March 30, 2020

We’re sharing some playlists from the Red Fox team to you. We hope you enjoy! Follow us on Spotify for more. Tezeta Founder Aleco Chigounis’s Ethiopian jazz playlist (aka the…

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Sourcing

Logistics Are Quality

March 5, 2020

Logistics are not just as important as quality: they are key to the actual delivered cup quality your customers see. Once harvested and processed, every coffee has a certain quality…

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Quality

Scaling Quality: Sample Roasting

February 6, 2020

Tasting coffee is the foundation of any high-quality coffee sourcing company, and you can’t taste coffee unless you roast it. Different companies take different approaches to sample roasting, but the…

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Quality

Sample Roasting

February 4, 2020

This piece was originally published here in 2016 and shares some general principles, specifics, and best practices. To learn more about our current sample roasting program, click here.  Hi folks,…

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We’re Opening a Year-Round Lab in Oaxaca, Mexico

February 3, 2020

Why Mexico? As I rode in the back of a car, looking out at the green, rolling, coffee-laden hills of Veracruz a few weeks ago during early harvest meetings, one…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Nariño

January 16, 2020

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…

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Paying for Coffee

Paying for Coffee: Coopbam, Peru

December 19, 2019

In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…

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