Sourcing

We buy coffee from people, not from a price list.

Eleven farms and cooperatives in six countries. We buy whole lots before the harvest at a price agreed in advance, and we go back every year.

Agreed before the harvest

Producers know our price and our volume months before they pick, so they can plan and hire.

Well above the market

We pay on average twice the commodity price, and we publish what we paid on every lot.

The same farms every year

Most of our producers have sold to us for four years or more. Good coffee takes time on both sides.

Harvest calendar

When each coffee is picked

Country	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Colombia	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May harvest	Jun harvest	Jul harvest	Aug harvest	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rwanda	Jan	Feb	Mar harvest	Apr harvest	May harvest	Jun harvest	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Brazil	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun harvest	Jul harvest	Aug harvest	Sep harvest	Oct	Nov	Dec
Ethiopia	Jan harvest	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov harvest	Dec harvest
Guatemala	Jan harvest	Feb harvest	Mar harvest	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec harvest

Coffee reaches us three to five months after the harvest, so the shelf follows the calendar with a delay.

Producers

Who grows our coffee

In the roastery

Every sack is opened by hand.

Green coffee keeps for about a year. We store it in jute and plastic liners at the back of the roastery and roast each lot within months of its arrival.

How we roast

Jute sacks of green coffee in the roastery