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Category: A Just Valuation

Realigning All the Empathy

These days, everyone seems to be talking about empathy–how to feel more of it, what to do with it, and … More

About that $18 Cup of Coffee

About that $18 cup of coffee in Brooklyn that went viral. What’s up with it? Why does it cost $18 … More

Alpha Dominche, Brooklyn, coffee, expensive coffee, Extraction Lab, Geisha, Panama, Steampunk

The Importance of Inefficiency and the Danger of Detail

  Specialty coffee is overwhelmingly inefficient. This inefficiency might be the one unilateral criterion that makes certain coffee special and … More

coffee, coffee roasting, growing coffee, small business, specialty coffee, sustainable coffee

Fat Neighbors

Some people have more money, resources, good looks, connections, and formative educational training than others. That’s life. In the case … More

coffee, coffee farmers, Colombia, direct trade, growing coffee, Nicaragua

Coffee in 2016

It’s a new year and there is everything to look forward to in life in general and especially in world … More

Ally Coffee, Brazil, coffee, coffee importing, green coffee, microlots, specialty coffee

Celebrity Farmers

Way back in the post Division of Decision I suggested that we don’t always know what me mean by the … More

coffee, coffee farmers, direct trade coffee, growing coffee, middlemen, When Coffee Speaks

When Coffee Connects

  Vague generalisms like “coffee connects people” or “coffee shops are a third space that builds community” are tired clichés. … More

coffee, coffee communities, coffee shop, Fresh Cup magazine, Starbucks, third space

Action, Impact, and a Dose of Serendipity

From the trajectory of its debut month, 2015 seems to be the year of serendipity. One such example came yesterday … More

coffee books, Sound Coffee Collective, When Coffee Speaks

Mutually Supportive

In the previous post in Spanish, I tell the story of arriving on my friend’s family farm in the mountains … More

Antioquia, Antioquia La Mas Educada, coffee, Colombia, Colombian coffee, CQI, growing coffee, SCAA, Sergio Fajardo, When Coffee Speaks

Antioquia La Más Educada

Hace un mes asistí la conferencia, (o si prefiere “el evento”) del SCAA, la Asociación de Cafes Especiales de Estados … More

Antioquia, Antioquia La Mas Educada, cafe de Colombia, Cafe de los Andes, cafes especiales, Ciudad Bolivar, Colombia, Cooperandes, CQI, Cuando el Cafe Habla, SCAA, Seattle, Sergio Fajardo, tinto colombiano, When Coffee Speaks

Not As Easy as Pie

I had the privilege of attending Michael Sheridan’s “Millions on the Margins” farmworker panel at SCAA. The aspect of the … More

coffee, coffee prices, coffee production, coffeelands, commodity valuation, CRS, fair trade, Fair Trade USA, farmworkers, Michael Sheridan, When Coffee Speaks

Seriously Seed to Cup

“Seed to cup” is the coffee industry’s equivalent of “farm to table,” a much used phrase intended to describe one … More

coffee, Costa Rica, direct trade, growing coffee, microlot coffee, Panama, seed to cup, When Coffee Speaks

You Can Feel Good About Potenciana Cafe

It’s Monday morning. It’s rainy and gray and dreary out. There are lots of coffees that claim to save the … More

Better Growth, coffee, Costa Rica, growing coffee, microlot coffee, non profit, Potenciana, Saplings

The Question No One Really Wants to Know the Answer to

At the Ground to Grounds coffee tasting/coffee talk event in DC a few weeks ago, a woman was flipping through … More

coffee, drinking coffee, fair trade, fair trade coffee, Fairtrade, Fairtrade coffee, When Coffee Speaks

The Best Way to Go Broke

Yesterday I checked a big ticket item off my “being a freelancer in 2014” to do list: I got Obamacare. … More

agriculture, coffee, growing coffee, Latin America, When Coffee Speaks

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