FROM SIDAMA AND HUILA
GROWN SLOW
POURED FAST
Coffee trades as a commodity, and when that price drops below what it costs to grow — which it does most years — the farmer absorbs the difference. Not the roaster, not the café, not you. That is the part of this industry we refuse to run on.
So we buy direct from eleven smallholder groves in Sidama, Ethiopia and Huila, Colombia, on three-year contracts at a fixed floor of $3.10 a pound over the commodity price. We republish that number every quarter, whether it flatters us or not.
Every grove we buy from grows under canopy nobody cleared to plant it. Shade-grown is slower and yields about a third less per hectare — and it is why the soil holds, the birds stay, and the cup tastes like somewhere rather than anywhere.
Thirty cents from every kilo goes to the Grove Fund: forty thousand shade-tree seedlings planted so far, and school fees covered for ninety-four children across the two valleys. Audited yearly, published in full.
- Over commodity
- $3.10
- Groves, 2 valleys
- 11
- Seedlings planted
- 40k
- School places
- 94