Mahyna stands in front of temporary housing on the site of her cooperatives former headquarters before an earthquake shook the ground in Takengon, Sumatra in late 2013.
Mahyna is a humorous, affable cooperative leader at KSU Arinagata.
Straddling the border of Congo and Uganda, the Ruhenzori Mountains are a relative newcomer to the specailty coffee scene. Although, the 800,000 inhabitants that live in this stunning green rift valley have grown coffee for generations, for many years coffee was bought and sold by the Idi Amin regime to finance the brutal civil wars that plagued Uganda and its people. Today, the Ruhenzori's have not only seen the return of their King after decades working as an orderly in a D.C. hospital they have also found a new opportunity to commercialize and sell wonderful coffees that we are just beginning to understand the potential of.
Coffee cherries after being picked. The burgondy color of the majority of the cherries of this bag indicate that the producer has carefully chosen to harvest only the ripe coffee cherries.
Photo courtesy of Root Capital
Coffee cherries after being picked. The burgondy color of the majority of the cherries of this bag indicate that the producer has carefully chosen to harvest only the ripe coffee cherries.
Photo courtesy of Root Capital
Augusto Casear SANDINO, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua.
Sandino became a hero to many leftists in Nicaragua and much of Latin America as a Robin Hood figure who opposed domination from wealthy elites and foreigners, such as the United States. His picture and silhouette, complete with the oversized cowboy hat, were adopted as recognized symbols of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
Coffee farmers and families throughout Nicaragua carry the legacy of Sandino and the Sandinista's into their daily struggle to cultivate some of the worlds finest coffees with a cause.
After the coffee cherries have been stripped of their outer shell and depulped the coffee is laid out on drying patios. Once dried the coffee is referred to as parchment, or parch for short.
Photo courtsey of Root Capital
After the coffee cherries have been stripped of their outer shell and depulped the coffee is laid out on drying patios. Once dried the coffee is referred to as parchment, or parch for short.
Photo courtsey of Root Capital
Coffee is a fruit that grows on trees. We just happen to like the seeds more than the fruit.
Photo courtesy of Root Capital
Coffee is a fruit that grows on trees. We just happen to like the seeds more than the fruit.
Photo courtesy of Root Capital
Jose Antonio Benevides, a smallholder Colombian coffee farmer, lives in the remote and volatile state of Cauca, which until recently was more famous for the wars that forced Jose and his community to live in a shadow of fear than their stellar coffees.
Jose owns four hectares of vital coffee lands that he cultivates with climate-smart techniques to ensure that he is a responsible steward of his land and has healthy, vibrant coffee trees to deliver to our taste buds.
Permata literally translates from the local Gayo language to Diamond, and the Permata Gayo cooperative is truly home to a culture, a coffee, and a landscape worthy of it's shinning name.
