How to Get a Loan as a Coffee Producer
Getting a loan can help you to expand your farm size, invest in processing equipment, purchase new varietals, and more. While we would always recommend ...read more
How Can Producers Improve Coffee Quality & Get Better Prices?
Producers, baristas, roasters, consumers – whoever we are, we all want coffee farmers to be able to produce better quality coffee and receive better prices. ...read more
Producer Stories: Why 1 Young Salvadoran Returned to Coffee
Returning to the coffee farm was one of the hardest decisions of my life. Growing up, I never wanted to work in coffee. Although I ...read more
Coffee Producer Stories: How Auctions Enable Direct Trade
This time last year, Ever Leonel Díaz Pérez expected to sell his coffee for usual rate of US $2/lb – a few cents above the ...read more
How Can Farms & Mills Work Together For Better Coffee?
It’s time to reconsider the relationship between farms and mills. All of us in the specialty industry have the same aim: high-quality coffee. Working together ...read more
Why Specialty Naturals Need Strict Quality Control
Natural coffees are full of sweetness, eco-friendly, and on trend. But they can also be one of the most vulnerable to contamination and fermentation – ...read more
Why Plant Coffee in Rows?
Every aspect of coffee planting can have a significant impact on the final product. And the decision to plant coffee in rows can affect coffee ...read more
Maracaturra: Why a CoE-Winning Farm Grows Hybrid Varietals
The Maracaturra: a hybrid* varietal, a cross of Maragogype and Caturra, that is common to Nicaragua. But in Apaneca, El Salvador, it’s growing on a ...read more
Farm, Mill, & Roastery: How Producers Can Vertically Integrate
Emilio Lopez tells me that, in 2001, you would struggle to find micro mills in El Salvador. There were few small operations. But all that ...read more
How Harvest Rains Destroy Coffee Crops
Harvest time in El Salvador is November to February/March. It’s a cool, dry season perfect for the picking of coffee cherries. Yet this year it’s already ...read more
The Business Behind Specialty: Micro Festival El Salvador Day 2
The final day of Micro Coffee Festival El Salvador started bright and early – perhaps a little too bright for those who’d been enjoying the ...read more
Producer Insight, Barista Skills—Micro Festival El Salvador Day 1
Micro Festival El Salvador is a one-of-a-kind event (if we do say so ourselves). A coffee festival in a producing country, it’s dedicated to discussing ...read more
Why a Salvadoran Mill Believes in Relationship Coffee
Today, Andres Salaverria is the fifth generation of his family to work in coffee. He’s also led the way in experimental processing, invested in training ...read more
Micro Festival El Salvador: We Need Events in Producing Countries
Our industry is driven by the people in it. And it only gets better when we connect. That’s why so coffee festivals are the starting ...read more
Producer Opinion: Why I Always Want to Learn More About Coffee
Juan Alfredo Pacas’ background is impressive: he’s a fifth-generation Salvadoran specialty coffee farmer, award-winning rum producer, and an industrial engineer – oh, and he also ...read more
Exploring Processing Methods on an 10-Times COE-Winning Farm
Finca Los Pirineos has produced Cup of Excellence coffees a staggering eight times – four of which they were ranked in the Top Ten. The ...read more