Rise, Grind, & Ride is a staple of the coffee and bike scenes in Broken Arrow, OK. They offer great specialty coffee drinks and tasty food for cyclists in the middle of a long ride or for anyone who wants great fare in a friendly atmosphere. We caught up with Rise, Grind, & Ride’s Randall [...]
We have an incredible crew at Café Campesino. With that mind, every now and again we like to take the time to highlight the great people that transform our farmer-partners’ expertly-grown raw beans into the incredible cup of coffee that you enjoy on a daily basis.Today we’d like to introduce you to one of [...]
On Wednesday, March 16 we met up with our friends at The Americus Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee (ASCMRC) for the groundbreaking of an incredibly exciting and important project. It rained hard in the hours leading up to the event, but as people began to assemble at The Historic Americus Colored Hospital the clouds parted. [...]
We are very excited to announce that in the next few weeks we will be introducing a new coffee to our lineup. The blend will raise funds in partnership with the Americus-Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee (ASCMRC) to help establish the Americus Civil Rights Center and Museum. The ASCMRC is a non-profit advocacy organization that [...]
Recently, due to a low harvest by our partners at Fondo Paez, we began increasing our purchases of coffee from COSURCA for our Colombian medium-roasted coffee. We have been working with COSURCA’s exporting arm for quite some time and the Co-op Coffees crew has visited them frequently. Since we are now working with them buying [...]
Guatemala’s Manos Campesinas farmer cooperative is one of our oldest and closest trading partners. Made up of 13 smaller coffee farmer co-ops across the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Sololá and Chimaltenango, Manos represents over 1,200 farming families. They work to maximize benefits to their members by offering the highest return and best prices and [...]
If you are in the LaGrange, GA area and are looking for a great cup of coffee in a uniquely bright and inviting space, you are in luck. Local Groundz is taking coffee quality to a new level and we are pretty psyched to be part of their growing business. I recently had a chance [...]
Many years ago we were fortunate to run into Kristin Russell, a woman passionate about coffee, farmers, sustainability, and community. Fast-forward twenty years and Kristin’s labor of love, The Sentient Bean, is one of our closest partners and a fixture in the Savannah community. What has been the secret of the Bean’s success? Read our [...]
The Cozy Camper serving coffee at an outdoor event
The Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail celebrated Mrs. Carter’s 94th birthday on Friday, August 20th in Plains, Georgia. During the event, they displayed the first drawing of a new garden to be planted in her honor. This garden will be located adjacent to her childhood home on South Bond Street in Plains and will be named [...]
The chapel at Acteal
Over two hundred thousand people were killed in Guatemala’s civil war that lasted between 1960 and 1996. The overwhelming majority of those who lost their lives were indigenous Mayan people in rural areas– up to 83% of all killed. A large number of those were civilians who were victims of the scorched earth campaigns of [...]
