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Video: Meet the coffee-farming Aguilar family of Peru

lillie — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:24 +0000

The Aguilars are small-scale organic farmers in the Santa Teresa Valley of southeastern Peru. The famiy’s primary source of income is Arabica coffee production. They also produce a variety of crops for personal consumption and bartering between neighbors. The Aguilars are member-owners of the COCLA cooperative, which makes select coffee harvests available via CoffeeCSA. Interested in buying [...]

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Video: Meet the Velasquez family of Guatemala

lillie — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:00:36 +0000

The Velasquez family are member-owners of Pachamama Cooperative, the organization that founded CoffeeCSA. This video is a day in the life of this family – from the children dressing and walking to school, to the family grinding corn and preparing lunch, and to the families from nearby villages bringing their coffee beans to a local [...]

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May’s Featured Farmer: Solina De Carmen

lillie — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:22:08 +0000

Each month CoffeeCSA features one of our member farmers in the Featured Farmer-of-the-Month Box. Want to learn more? Check out all the details… The featured farmer for May is Solina de Carmen. This Month’s Coffee This month’s featured organic coffee, produced by Solina de Carmen, is a medium roast with floral, complex, bright, and tangerine notes. [...]

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New York Times: Coffee’s Economics, Rewritten by Farmers

lillie — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:00:56 +0000

This article was written by Nicole LaPorte and published in The New York Times. Thrive’s system is among a growing number of innovative business models in the coffee and cocoa industries that are allowing farmers to increase their ownership and profit margins. Divine Chocolate, based in London, is partly owned by cocoa farmers in Ghana, who [...]

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Stanford Business: Farm to Cup Merger Emphasizes Partnership & Economic Empowerment

lillie — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:00:03 +0000

This article was originally published by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. A Grassroots Student Effort Now Has Even More Impact Their mission has been to disrupt the coffee industry by providing the most direct connection to growers and to empower every participant in the supply chain. In 2011, three intrepid Stanford MBAs launched Farm to [...]

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Farmer-Owned CoffeeCSA.org to merge with Stanford’s Farm to Cup

lillie — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:00:19 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Download the press release (pdf) Coffee farmers embrace technology to shorten supply chain and sell their best coffee directly to U.S. consumers. Sacramento, Calif., (Dec. 11, 2012) The Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, a farmer-owned distributor of premium coffee, today announced its merger with Farm to Cup, Inc., an online coffee marketplace founded in 2011 by [...]

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How much is a farmer traditionally paid?

lillie — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:00:00 +0000

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Roast Magazine: a simple but appealing business model for coffee beans

lillie — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:00:47 +0000

This article was published at Daily Coffee News – Roast Magazine. Sacramento Cooperative Serves as Coffee CSA Storefront A new Sacramento, Calif., coffee company is hoping to survive using a simple but appealing business model — selling beans as a community supported agriculture (known as CSA) storefront. With no cafe or in-house roasting, Pacha Coffee, [...]

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