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Double the Process

Coffee and cacao are the only two commodities that need intensive long term care just to be produced, but then … More

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This Week in Coffee, Edition 3

Pride Monday I picked coffee. The men working on the house on the property I was picking on were eager … More

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Measuring Up

A bilingual evaluation of coffee measurements. How many manzanas fit in your hectare? When did acres turn into hectares? Maybe … More

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Trampa

Trampa– (n. f.) trap, snare. Hacer trampas. To cheat. Farmers can’t cheat. If stuff doesn’t grow, stuff doesn’t grow. At … More

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Farming the Variables

Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” makes lots of interesting points, but one particularly interesting section is where he tries to tease … More

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Cuando el Cafe Habla (When Coffee Speaks): Stories from Caficultores

Humanity of Commodity: Working Project Rationale Everything has a story. No one of us, no moment of anyone’s life, fits … More

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