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Category: Field Notes: what it looks like on the ground

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

The Event

Seeing both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the same day elicits a special kind of “manifest destiny” stomach-butterfly flutter … More

coffee, coffeepeople, SCAA, Seattle, specialty coffee, Starbucks, 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

How to Build a Book

Kind of like coffee, books are all around us and we probably don’t know too much about what goes into … More

books, coffee books, Espresso Book Machine, McNally Jackson, New York, self publishing, 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

NYC Baristas Speak: 3 Questions with Park Brannen of Counter Culture

3 (plus a bonus) Questions with Park Brannen, Northeast Regional Barista Champion and wholesale support rep with Counter Culture’s NYC … More

barista, coffee, Counter Culture, Counter Culture New York, New York, New York coffee, Park Brannen, Waffle House, When Coffee Speaks

NYC Roasters Speak: The King of Queens

  Most NYC roasters are rooted in Brooklyn (all the ones interviewed so far in the NYC Roasters Speak series are). … More

coffee, coffee roasting, COFFEED, New York, Queens, When Coffee Speaks

NYC Roasters Speak: The New Guard

Today’s newest guard of NYC coffee roasters is springing up—like battle-ready Athena from the head of Zeus—out of the expertise … More

Brooklyn, coffee, New York, Parlor Coffee, Pulley Collective, roasting coffee, When Coffee Speaks

NYC Roasters Speak: The Aussies

Part two of a the NYC Roasters Speak series, expanding the stories behind the “Roasting Revival in the City that … More

Brooklyn, coffee, coffee roasting, Kitten Coffee, New York coffee, NYC, Toby's Estate, When Coffee Speaks

Just Another Boys Club?

WEIGH IN through March 23: Is roasting just for the men? Why are there so few female roasters among the … More

coffee, coffee roasting, When Coffee Speaks, women in coffee

NYC Roasters Speak: The Williamsburgers

Williamsburg has been the definition of hipster Brooklyn cool for close to a decade now, but it isn’t just a … More

Brooklyn, Cafe Grumpy, coffee, coffee roasting, New York, Oslo Coffee, When Coffee Speaks

There Are No Slaves Here

The last night of my most recent trip to Panama I had a conversation that left me very perturbed. It … More

coffee, Ngobe, Panama, picking 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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