A visit to a Nicaraguan coffee farm reveals how women pickers juggle demanding harvest work with childcare and household duties, often relying on each other for support.
How coffee professionals responded to calls for racial justice, from an open letter that led to a new coalition to roasteries pledging anti-racism and a Brooklyn collaboration supporting businesses owned by people of color.
Juan José Estrada Lopez, a Nicaraguan coffee equipment specialist in Hawaii, was taken into custody during his adjustment-of-status interview and held for over five months. His release followed legal action by the ACLU of Hawaii and a judge’s approval of his green card.
A new spreadsheet-based resource from a Portland roastery aims to help buyers and producers set green coffee prices rooted in actual production costs, not just quality scores.
Colorado roasteries Ozo, Huckleberry, and Queen City, together with Corvus, have each supported producer groups in Peru, Guatemala, and Rwanda through sales-driven fundraising, financing drying infrastructure and other farm-level improvements.
Free translation services aim to help farmers connect with consumers and share their stories.
An Indianapolis roaster lets customers decide what to pay for out-of-spec coffees, with a floor price and a donation channel for unsold bags.
Panama's Ngöbe people work as seasonal coffee harvesters while also cultivating their own land, a duality that shapes labor and community in the comarca and beyond.
Cxffeeblack, the Memphis coffee and lifestyle brand, is collaborating with COMOCO Cotton on a limited-edition t-shirt that spotlights Black ownership, cultural restoration, and sustainable innovation.
Fermentation-driven processing has captured the specialty coffee market's imagination, but for farmers the decision to adopt these methods carries financial and technical uncertainties that deserve closer scrutiny.
