World Coffee Market in 2025

Coffee Cherries at Santuario Sul coffee farm in Brazil

The price of coffee is going up. It’s helpful to understand why. Let’s touch the surface on what’s impacting the price, and then see what you can do about it to keep specialty coffee in your mugs.

What does ‘fresh harvest’ mean?

Green coffee beans in parchment

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 […]

Prepayment Plans at Origin

Coffee varietal Hybrido de Timor cherries ripe on tree Timor-Leste

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 […]

Sustainability in Rwanda

“Supporting women is to support all nations” Nova Coffee in Rwanda, founded and managed by the wonderful Agnes Mukamushinja, began as a family business in 2015. Since that time, they have grown in size, maturity and understanding for how to best empower the lives of all in the community. The business uses coffee agriculture to […]

Ageing Green Beans

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. […]

El Arbol 的可持续发展

Coffee farm El Arbol managed by Claudia Lovo and Project Origin used as a processing base for Bridazul

In 2015, Saša Šestić and Claudia Lovo teamed up to purchase land in Dipilto, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. This land was previously used to grow commercial grade coffee trees, and both Saša and Claudia believed that they could convert it to producing high quality, specialty grade coffee. This farm was called El Árbol, after the giant […]

东帝汶

Coffee varietal Hybrido de Timor cherries ripe on tree Timor-Leste

东帝汶的精品咖啡行业正在与咖啡生产合作伙伴 Orijem Timor 合作,将东帝汶的农民与全球市场联系起来,我们为参与其中感到无比自豪。与我们的合作伙伴一起,我们正在努力以可持续和进步的方式分享和种植来自美丽的东帝汶的特色咖啡 […]

直接贸易

直接贸易。我们已经知道存在一个术语,但作为消费者,我们可能无法完全理解它。直接贸易的目的是为整个供应链长度提供支持。通过直接从种植和种植咖啡的生产者那里购买,烘焙师可以分享更好的 […]

Biochar——大卫·恩吉布尼

Young Coffee Producer David Ngibuini at his farm Maguta Estate in Kenya

Biochar 是天然有机制造的,可以帮助改善土壤质量以及清理地球大气。我们在肯尼亚 Maguta Estate 的朋友 David Ngibuini 正在制作自己的生物炭来改善咖啡树和产量,我们询问他是如何做到这一点的。