Most of us – if we were lucky – were taught the Golden Rule at home as we were growing up. “Do unto others, as you would have done to you.” But applying that rule to business is a concept many of us have learned from Bill Harris Jr. Bill thinks of business a little […]
Americus, Georgia- March 20, 2018- The Sumter County Chamber of Commerce honored Café Campesino Co-founder Bill Harris Jr. with the Sparky Reeves Sumter Trustee Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday, March 19. The award was presented during the chamber’s 98th annual awards dinner and celebration. Since co-founding the fair trade, organic coffee company Cafe Campesino in […]
In Honduras, coffee farmers are so serious about organics that they’ve got a biospheric buffer zone around their community with signs reading something like No chemicals come in here! Members of COMSA coffee trading company are truly alchemizing their native soil in ways that are the envy of farmers in other nations.
Picture yourself in the Sumatran jungle mountains of North Indonesia, a crescendo of mountains shooting up from the sea where many locals’ lives depend on the coffee industry. This is one of the most beautifully lush regions of the world but fraught with historical mistreatment that lead to separatist fighting since 1976.
Ethan Ryan, our roaster extraordinaire, traveled to Guatemala for the first time in May to meet producer partners at the APECAFORM cooperative, learn about coffee harvesting and exporting, and generally polish up on his Spanish. It was his first time abroad. And his first time at coffee origin.
We are headed to a coffee farm named “Cual Bicicleta”, or “Which Bicycle”? I knew this wasn’t going to be a typical farm – actually nothing about Oscar Omar Alonzo Aguilar is typical! Oscar is a passionate soil advocate – his farm is an incredible living testament to the organic farmer’s mantra “Feed the soil.. let the soil feed the plant”. Take a few minutes to read Monika’s blog post chronicling her eye-opening visit to Oscar’s farm. We loved any opportunity to connect coffee and bicycling.. but didn’t expect to run across this connection in Honduras!