Coffee Growing & Production
Fair Trade Organic Mexico Oaxaca Zapoteca

As the world’s 8th overall largest producer of coffee, Mexico’s role in the coffee trade cannot be understated. Throughout North America specialty coffee importers and green coffee traders are keenly aware of the importance of the southern ...
Ethiopia Organic Washed Guji’s

This month we’re very pleased to offer you two new fantastic, washed, organic Ethiopian coffees from two different wash stations in Guji. Both have been produced by fourth generation farmer and mill operator, Aklilu Kassa along with his son, ...
Tanzania Kibosho Peaberry Microlot

In northern Tanzania Mount Kilimanjaro reigns supreme; it is simultaneously the continent’s highest peak (16,000 feet from base to summit), an extinct stratovolcano and the source of a majority of Tanzania’s high quality arabica coffee sinc...
Costa Rica El León De Heredia

In Costa Rica there are very few families with a history in coffee that dates back over a century to the 1880’s, when Costa Rica’s independence from Spain was still evolving and coffee exports were driving the nation towards a coffee-focuse...
Rwanda Hingakawa Women’s Cooperative

We’re very proud to once again be offering our Rwanda Hingakawa Women’s Cooperative specialty coffee. This amazing group of female coffee producers claims the unique distinction of being part of the Abakundakawa-Rushashi Cooperative, Rwanda...
New Colombian Microlots

As green coffee trading goes, we’re always on the lookout for those coffees that offer a little something extra to our roasters. This month we’re very excited to have secured a few limited volume, sustainably grown Colombia microlots for yo...
Papua New Guinea 2017 – Anything Can Happen!

This past month I traveled to Papua New Guinea for five days to check in on the farmers of the Purosa highlands, their co-op leaders and mill operators in Goroka. My wife Kat, CFO of Vournas Coffee Trading, our son Zach and Craig and Heather ...