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This page details information about specific coffee farms, regions, and relationships as we form them in the coffee world. It will allow you to follow along with us as we trace the steps of your coffee from the farm to your table. We will post up and coming potential purchases, as well as feature the farmers and importers that bring this coffee to market. So stay in touch.

What is Origin? Origin Coffee refers to the specific region where a single coffee originated. The region where it is grown determines the flavor and characteristics of that particular coffee. Each crop, season to season, will vary depending on the growing conditions of that particular year. In addition, how the coffee is processed, stored and shipped before it gets to market also impacts the resulting cup of coffee.

Keeping up to date on where specific coffee comes from is fun and educational. Like fine wine, we are able to experience the subtleties of how these factors ultimately influence the taste of our coffee.

Ethiopian Harrar - Fair Trade and Organic certified

Ethiopia produces some of the most unique and fascinating coffees in the world. The three main regions where Ethiopia coffee beans originate are Harrar, Ghimbi, and Sidamo (Yirgacheffe). Ethiopian Harrar coffee beans are grown on small farms in the eastern part of the country. They are dry-processed and are labeled as longberry (large), shortberry (smaller), or Mocha (peaberry). Ethiopian Harrar coffee can have a strong dry edge, winy to fruit like acidity, rich aroma, and a heavy body. In the best Harrar coffees, one can observe an intense aroma of blueberries or blackberries. Ethiopian Harrar coffee is often used in espresso blends to capture the fine aromatics in the crema.

Our coffee comes from Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU), the largest Fair Trade coffee producer in Ethiopia, was founded in 1999 when small cooperatives in Ethiopia came together with the goal of exporting their
coffee directly to the specialty market.

OCFCU members are dedicated to promoting environmental
stewardship and social justice in their communities. Women hold
prominent positions throughout the organization and all six varieties of
OCFCU’s award-winning coffee are produced with organic techniques
in bird-friendly conditions.

Sumatra - Permata Gayo Cooperative Fair trade and Organic certified

The Gayo Organic Coffee Farmers Association (PPKGO) is an organic Fair Trade coffee cooperative located in the Gayo Highlands of the Aceh province of Sumatra, Indonesia. Cooperative members are small-scale coffee farmers dedicated to producing 100% certified organic, shade-grown coffee. In a region known for political conflict, the co-op has continued to produce, process, and export high-quality Sumatran coffee. It has maintained relative peace and unity among an ethnically diverse membership comprised of Gayo, Javanese, Acehnese, Padang, and Batak peoples. Twenty percent of PPKGO’s members are women.
PPKGO lies in an environmentally sensitive region—the buffer zone to Gunung Leuser National Park, which contains critical watershed areas and sanctuaries for endangered species such as the Sumatran tiger. The co-op has been Fair Trade certified by Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) since 2000, and Fair Trade price incentives and technical support provided by the cooperative have encouraged sustainable agriculture and resource conservation.

Panachi, Peru - Organic and Fair Trade certified Coffee

Penachi is about six hours North of the Coastal city of Chiclayo, Peru. Because the area is very desolate and remote, there is very little commercial activity beyond coffee and sustenance harvesting of tropical fruit and herbs. About 100 miles inland from the Pacific Coast, there is Andes Mountain Jungle, at elevation between 110 and 1500 meters above sea level, that separates Peru from Equador. It is here in these mountains, that our organic coffee is grown. This area is without modern technology. Most villages, even one half hour from the main North / South highway, have only gravel roads, no electricity or telephone communication systems. But it is here, in this poorest of areas, that the farmers are working the hardest, with the most cooperation and commitment. Transfair USA has been able to bring technological assistance to train them in active organic growing practices, to improve their harvesting, processing and drying methods, so their coffee will meet Transfair's quality standards.

“Fair Trade has a broad impact on our community. It allows us to continue
to strengthen our programs, and it improves the lives of farmers,
their families, and our community.”
Isabel Uriarte Latorre,
CECANOR member

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