Siltepec is located in the center of Chiapas, and El Jaguar Siltepec comes from the high-altitude area of the Sierra Madre, bordering the biosphere reserve El Trifuno, which is the habitat of an Endemic Bird Area, “El Quetzal.” This ecological region represents 30 percent of the flora in all of the Chiapas territory.

The microclimate in this region creates a cloud forest, due to the Soconuscu rainforest zone around the Novillero River. The weather is humid with lots of shade, cool conditions at night and excellent soil, which together create a perfect environment for the development of specialty coffee.

This coffee comes from a group of small producers who are involved in the NKG BLOOM initiative. The beans were harvested and processed by hand, then de-pulped, fermented, washed and finally dried in the sun.

NKG export company Exportadora de Café California (ECC) created Por Más Café in 2014, to address the coffee rust crisis. Por Más Café is now part of NKG BLOOM, an effort to end poverty in the coffee supply chain by empowering producers to run their farms at full potential.

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Medium Roast

La Asociación Sostenible de Café de Guatemala (ASDECAFE) is a sustainable, second-level coffee association in Guatemala with more than 1,000 active producer members. It was founded in September of 2013 by six small, first-level producer organizations and today includes seven co-ops in the regions of Huehuetenango and El Quiche. ASDECAFE received Organic certification around 2014. The association is committed to sustainability and environmental protections, the equitable distribution of all generated income, transparency in business, and long-term relationships with customers and suppliers. It's also intently focused on using good agricultural and post-harvest practices to improve its members' coffee quality and access to international markets.

By coming together under the umbrella of ASDECAFE, smaller cooperatives can experience savings, such as through shared transportation costs and by splitting certifications fees, which helps their earned premiums go farther. ASDECAFE also offers services including technical assistance, training and pre-financing. Working together also gives them more bargaining strength and enables them to build relationships with importers—instead of relying individually on coyotes—which offers better prices and long term stability.

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Medium Roast

Willian Carrillo’s El Aguacate parcel is named for a single large avocado tree that has dominated the field for 60 years. Willian inherited the parcel with its namesake avocado tree from his parents knowing he wanted to carry on the tradition of growing coffee. Willian is constantly challenging himself to learn more about the processes required to produce top quality coffee, and it shows.

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Medium Roast

Dumerso is a private washing station located just north of the town of Yirga Chefe, in the heart of the coveted Gedeo Zone—the narrow section of highland plateau dense with savvy farmers and fiercely competitive processors whose coffee is known the world over as “Yirgacheffe.” As a coffee terroir, Yirgacheffe has for decades been considered a benchmark for beauty and complexity in arabica coffee—known for being beguilingly ornate and jasmine-like when fully washed, and seductively punchy and sweet when sundried.

The station now employs over 400 individuals during harvest season, 95% of whom are women. During harvest farmers deliver ripe cherries daily to the Dumerso mill. Last harvest they achieved both organic and Rain Forest Alliance certification for the station, and they are currently undertaking a project to establish a local plant to convert coffee parchment into a kind of pressed firewood, as a way of boosting income for the station to distribute to growers and to help local farmers rely less on local forests for their daily source of fire.

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Light Roast

The Ethiopia Shantawene Sidama coffee beans are prepared using a natural process, and dried in the shade on raised beds. This organic coffee, which is grown high up in the mountains, mostly comes from two farms which are UTZ, Rainforest Alliance and C.A.F.E. practices certified.

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Light Roast

From the region of San Ignacio, Cajamarca, in Peru, VCR is proud to start offering El Eso Fairtrade Organic. Named after the elusive Andean bear—which has been sighted in the surrounding ecological reserve—this coffee is from Cooperativa Agraria Frontera San Ignacio (COOPAFSI). These producers follow organic practices which contribute to the preservation of the environment.

COOPAFSI was founded in 1968 and today it offers services to its 453 members, including access to a wet mill in San Ignacio, a dry mill in Chiclayo, two quality control labs run by Q Graders, and access to a plant nursery and organic fertilizer.

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Medium Roast

This coffee is from Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Alto Mayo in the region of San Martín y Cajamarca.

The co-op consists of more than 1,500 coffee growing families spread across the region. It focuses on developing sustainable coffee farming that directly benefits these families and helps the development of their communities.

Swiss Water® Process (SWP) coffees are free of added chemicals and processed using the cleanest water possible. SWP is also dedicated to aiding initiatives that support sustainability and the livelihoods of producers around the world.

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Dark Roast

Located in the mountainous and moist cultivation area in the BenaBena Valley in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, this washed coffee is produced by the Korofeigu Cooperative Society, comprised of 97 producers. Originating in 1945, 13 teenagers from the Korofeigu and other surrounding areas were selected to be sent for a newly created school for training in coffee production. Since then, coffee has emerged as the most important agricultural crop in Papua New Guinea, directly or indirectly providing the major source of income for a third of the country’s population.

NGHCE (New Guinea Highlands Coffee Exports) has recently begun a program to assist farmers in obtaining their Organic certification. This coffee is a product of this initiative, which also provides extensive work on HIV/AIDS prevention, financial management, gender equality awareness, coffee husbandry and certification standards and procedures.

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To control freshness, we ship out orders every Tuesday and Wednesday. Please order by Sunday to make the weekly cutoff.

Light Roast