The Australian coffee market faces rising wages, inflation, and high input costs, putting pressure on roasters to maintain supply. Some hesitate to contract green beans due to price hikes, but waiting can lead to shortages and higher spot prices. To avoid this, roasters should contract 4-5 months in advance, monitor blend costs, build strong relationships with importers, and understand harvest cycles.
When you say you want ‘fresh harvest coffee’, how fresh are you talking? And how old are you willing to use? Whilst we all desire to work with fresh crop lots and revel in its vibrancy, are you aware that your access to ‘fresh crop’ may not be as ‘fresh’ as you think, making it important to understand what this term really refers to and how we approach the term. The life of a green coffee bean needs to go through the following steps and timeline: So what does this mean for your ‘fresh harvest’ lot? Green beans arrive at your roastery 4-8 months after harvest, and this is […]
You already know – workplace health and safety is important! It is important in every occupation, in every location. Everyone has a right to a safe and healthy working environment, including in the coffee supply chain… including workers, farmers, producers and pickers at a coffee farm. (Surprise, surprise – we’re here to advocate for the workers at origin again.) This is what the Vision Zero Fund is about. It is part of an International Labor Organisation (ILO) flagship programme that is building a culture of safe, healthy work. And on this International Coffee Day, we want you to read about it too. #CoffeePeople The ILO released a collective action kit […]
As coffee lovers we have all had that wow experience where the flavour, the aroma and the texture of a coffee seduced our senses. Hopefully we have had that experience many times.
A big part of achieving this wow factor in blended coffees comes down to the roasters’ choice of beans and understanding the different characteristics of origins as well as processing.
Project Origin, in 2023, is implementing prepayment plans for the farmers who pick cherries for the Thageini Washing Station in Kenya. Over the upcoming years, we will see the differences the advanced payments can make to the community, and we will report back with the results. Here is everything to know about prepayment plans. What is a prepayment? A prepayment plan is where we, as an exporter, pay an agreed amount for a coffee before the coffee begins harvesting or processing. You can think of it like a deposit. Farmers and producers are often able to predict the seasons’ harvest based on how the coffee trees flower. Using this understanding, […]
Ordering coffee to last a year’s worth of roasting It is important to know your harvesting calendar. Most origins will harvest their cherries only once per year. This means that you have one opportunity every twelve months to secure lots from that origin, and those lots will last you until they undertake the next harvest. Harvested coffee takes several weeks to be picked, processed, dried and rested before it can be milled and exported. Even the exporting phase can take a couple of months. This means that green beans are often already 4 months old by the time they arrive at our warehouse doors. So catering for twelve months worth […]
Timor-Leste’s specialty coffee industry is being put on the map with coffee production partnership, Orijem Timor, connecting farmers in Timor-Leste to global markets, and we couldn’t be more proud to be involved. Together with our partners, we are working towards sharing and growing specialty coffees from the beautiful Timor-Leste in a sustainable and progressive way that will benefit 1000+ coffee producing households for years and years to come. With the proud backing of the Australian Government’s Business Partnership Platform (BPP), Orijem Timor was formed in 2021 based on a partnership between three companies, each of whom share similar values and goals. Local company, Kape Diem Coffee Lab, trains farmers and […]
直接取引。私たちが知るようになった用語は存在しますが、消費者として私たちはそれを完全に理解していないかもしれません。直接取引の目的は、サプライチェーン全体にわたってサポートを提供することです。ロースターは、コーヒーを栽培・栽培している生産者から直接購入することで、製品に対する理解を深め、ビジネスの透明性を高めることができます。しかし、これは持続可能な取引モデルですか？ Project Originは、スペシャリティコーヒー業界は、サプライチェーンの最初と最後の間の接続性が文字通りの定義を超えている、より持続可能な直接取引モデルの構築に向けて取り組むべきだと考えています[…]
世界のコーヒー市場はここ数か月間多くの変化がありました。過去2年間を含め、今スペシャルティコーヒーのサプライチェーンの2つの主要な要素について、何が起こっているのか、私たちがこれから起こることにどのように準備できるのかについての最新情報を共有したいと思います。
プロジェクト・オリジンでは、テイスターやカッパーの経験を複雑にしないことを心がけています。楽しくて、楽しくて、スペシャルティコーヒーの世界をより深く知ることができ、最終的な体験をもたらすために必要なすべての要素を見ることができるはずです。
そこで、CMセレクションズフレーバースペクトラムをローンチします。
私たちは、私たちが働いている土地の伝統的な所有者であるングンナワルの人々に感謝します。私たちは、過去、現在、そして新興の長老たちに敬意を表します。
