Decentralization & Community in Oaxaca Coffee Sourcing

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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Logistics

Global Shipping Challenges & Planning Ahead for the Balance of 2021

May 19, 2021

Greetings from the cockpit in Oaxaca. As I’m sure many of you are now aware, the world is in the throes of a global shipping quandary. The main culprits are…

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Ernesto Perez of Coatepec on Veracruz History & Mexico’s New Generation

April 26, 2021

We were lucky to get a chance to talk with Coatepec Veracruz-based producer, wet mill manager and community leader Ernesto Perez. A younger farmer who took over the family farm…

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Ethiopia Supply Chain Partner Eden Kassahun On Managing Logistics Through Covid 19

April 12, 2021

Eden Kassahun is one of Red Fox’s most integral supply chain partners and has been since we opened in the business in 2014. Eden and Red Fox co-founder Aleco Chigounis’s…

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Shipping Update

Red Fox Coffee Merchants Origin & Shipment Update: Q2 2021

April 6, 2021

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

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Interviews

Esperanza Dionisio of Pangoa on Cooperativism, Women Leadership, & Covid-19

March 12, 2021

Photo courtesy of Mark Corpus of Reanimator. Esperanza Dionisio has a reputation that precedes her. Leader of the Pangoa cooperative in Peru’s Selva Central and the first ever woman cooperative…

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Jean Bosco & Longin of Dormans Rwanda on Kanzu Coffee, 2020, & Covid-19

February 16, 2021

We were able to connect with Jean Bosco Seminega and Longin Muhizi of C. Dormans Rwanda in the Foxhole and talk all things Rwanda, Covid, and the 2020 and 2021…

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Sourcing

Kedir Jebril Imamu & His Fabled Gogogu Forest Coffees

January 28, 2021

Central Guji is one of the coffee world’s veritable treasure chests. As the Ethiopian coffee trade has made itself over several times in the past 12 years, so has Red…

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Tibed Yujra of Puno, Peru on Puno History & Launching An Association During Covid

December 14, 2020

We were lucky to get a chance to sit down with Tibed Yujra, a long-time partner in Puno, Peru, in the Foxhole for a conversation about his work in organizing…

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