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How Roasters Are Meeting the Moment Amid High Prices & Tariffs

April 10, 2025

The coffee industry is facing a complex moment: first, a high and volatile C Market coupled with accompanying huge global green coffee price increases and low global coffee stocks, and…

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Sourcing

Building Stability: Quality & Logistics in Oaxaca 2025

March 20, 2025

We’re deep in harvest in Oaxaca—cupping at full speed in the lab, working directly with individual farmers and small local community groups, hands-on at the local dry mill to monitor…

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Sourcing

Mexico Veracruz & Chiapas: Building Stability At Every Link of the Supply Chain

February 27, 2025

We’re kicking off Mexico season with Veracruz and Chiapas, where the harvest is going full-force. Our Mexico team has been hard at work since before harvest, traveling constantly from community…

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Quality

Boots on the Ground in Lima & Oaxaca: Pt 2

November 13, 2024

When we meet new prospective partners at any link of the supply chain, one of the first things we usually talk about is our headquarters in Lima, Peru, and Oaxaca,…

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Boots on the Ground in Lima & Oaxaca: Pt 1

September 25, 2024

When we meet new prospective partners at any link of the supply chain, one of the first things we usually talk about is our headquarters in Lima, Peru, and Oaxaca,…

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Quality

Eyes on Milling: QC Keys

August 14, 2024

Every coffee starts its life as the seed of a fruit, then is processed out of the fruit down to its parchment layer. After that, all coffees go through milling…

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Calibrating with Customers: Labtime with Joel

June 21, 2023

  One of the challenges we all face in the coffee industry is calibrating with customers on the taste of a coffee: what they mean when they use specific words,…

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Calibrating a Global Cupping Team: Labtime with Joel

February 21, 2023

At Red Fox, our coffee program relies from start to finish on a team of globally-distributed cuppers working simultaneously on shared standards. From the initial purchasing process, to the quality…

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Red Fox’s Fabian Viveros León Talks QC, Mexico, & Covid-19

October 28, 2020

A third generation coffee worker, Red Fox’s Fabian Viveros León learned about coffee cultivation, quality control, and trading from his father in Huila, Colombia, starting at a young age. Currently…

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