Collective Regurgitation

Tell me your story. Don’t retell me what someone else has said about you, has told you about yourself, tell … More

Tea and Chocolate

Because sometimes you need a break from coffee* This isn’t about tea or chocolate (although I do kind of love … More

Juan’s World: A 5 Part series on the inner workings of Colombian coffee Part 4: Factor 90 When coffee speaks … More

I arrived in Colombia last Thursday, and instantly fell in love with the people and the place just as much … More

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

If your coffee comes with a tag of organic or fair trade or single origin, do you believe it? If … 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

Living a city that never sleeps in a highly developed nation in a fully globalized world, sometimes it’s hard to … 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

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

“Amor de Café” by Juan Tuk Durán in Sintercafe’s Grano de Oro exhibition I’m tempted to say that this year … More

Some people talk about getting stuck in jobs they hate, about ending up in a field in which they have … More

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