Blending Art and Science

Working with coffee- in any form at any stage- is always part art and part science. Science because you can … More

Personalidades de la Taza

En el mundo de la venta y compra de comodidades, como el café, todo se maneja con tramites y papeleria. … More

Don Tito is a known personality in Boquete, a small species of local celebrity. A visit to his farm and … More

Smart locals. These are the ones who spent their childhoods sweating on the family farm, but realized that their land … More

About a month into my trip I was skyping with one of my best friends and he asked me, … More

To be a jefe, to be a don, you have to run something. Sometimes it’s a store, sometimes it’s a … More

Growing anything is difficult. To be a farmer you have to do a lot of work. To be a good … More

I spent 9 days living in a Ngöbe indigenous reserve in the Bocas del Toro province on Panama’s Northern Caribbean … More

Familiar– (adj) of or pertaining to family. Una empresa familiar. A family business. Coffee, at any stage in the chain, … More

The goal of the final book When Coffee Speaks is to share the stories that coffee growers (and other … More

Cedral is a small mountain community in southern Costa Rica with a school, two tiny stores, a church, a Boy … More

Coffee cherries being loaded from the receiver into the beneficio truck. Costa Rica and Nicaragua: two countries with histories and … More

La segunda finca que visité en Nicaragua está ubicada en El Roblar, una comunidad casi puramente cafetalera, ubicada por las … More

Mucha gente me ha preguntado- con razón- porque mi blog no sale en español si estoy andando por paises que … More

..as vintner is to… coffeemaker? No, that won’t work; a winemaker is a person, but a coffeemaker is an appliance. … More