Coffee and cacao are the only two commodities that need intensive long term care just to be produced, but then … More
Category: A Just Valuation
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
Measuring Up
A bilingual evaluation of coffee measurements. How many manzanas fit in your hectare? When did acres turn into hectares? Maybe … More
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
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
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