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Market Lane – Buf Cafe and Dukunde Kawa, Rwanda

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Dukunde Kawa and Buf Cafe Market Lane

Bean Market’s December Christmas subscription featured Dukunde Kawa Cooperative and Buf Cafe, from Market Lane Coffee. These coffees were directly sourced.

MURAHO RWANDA! (Hello Rwanda!)

For Market Lane, Rwanda is a country that is close to their hearts. Specialty coffee has been the main driver of economic growth in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994.

Market Lane has been involved with this development, through a meaningful & mutual six years of relationship with Buf Cafe and the Dukunde Kawa cooperative.

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Small Batch Roasting Co – Santa Barbara Project, Honduras

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Bean Market’s November subscription featured Small Batch Roasting Co. Small Batch Roasting Co’s featured coffee was directly sourced from the Santa Barbara region of Honduras by owner Andrew Kelly.

Our next shipment, shipping November 26th is Small Batch Roasting Co’s ‘The Santa Barbara Project.’

To celebrate the delicious efforts of 8 producers from the Santa Barbara region, Honduras; Small Batch Roasting Co has adopted the ‘The Santa Barbara Project’ handle overcoming the small quantities of many of the lots.

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STREAT Coffee – Kiawamururu AA, Nyeri, Kenya

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Bean Market’s October Coffee pack is themed on Social Enteprises of Melbourne. STREAT Coffee is a social enterprise and coffee roastery featuring the Kiawamururu, Nyeri, Kenya.

ABOUT:

The story of STREAT Coffee starts when co-founders Rebecca Scott and Kate Barrelle worked for KOTO, a training program and restaurant providing street youth with life and job skills in Hanoi.

Following her time at KOTO, Rebecca visited many outstanding social enterprises in Thailand, Laos and Indonesia. Seeing the positive impact of such social enterprise work, this inspired Rebecca to pursue this as a research topic in her Masters of International and Community Development.

STREAT Coffee was born from such key experiences and research. In early 2008, STREAT piloted the program. They tested the model and developed strategies, policies and procedures to expand the model further, 2009 was used to lay down foundations while 2010 they kick-started the program. I chat to Michael Lawson, from STREAT Coffee about their work. See the full interview with roaster Michael Lawson here.

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Artful Dodger Coffee Trading Co – Mutana Hill, Long Miles Coffee Project, Burundi

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Bean Market’s September subscription featured Artful Dodger Coffee Trading Co. Artful Dodger featured the Mutana Hill, from Long Miles Coffee Project that I had the chance to interview. This coffee was sourced through Handpickers.

DETAILS OF ORIGIN:

Long Miles Coffee Project is a coffee producer in Burundi, and is run by a small American family. They were not always producers, but rather a family with a dream. They dreamed of facilitating direct and meaningful relationships between coffee roasters and coffee growers by producing great coffee and telling the story of the farmers who grow it.

However, after some time sourcing coffee in Burundi, they realised the only way they could live their dream, consistently deliver high quality coffee, and control the price their farmers were being paid was to build a washing station. With the help of friends and devoted blog readers, they were able to sell their first harvest of coffee before it even hit the drying tables. They are now a vital part of the community.

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Padre Coffee – Loma La Gloria, El Salvador

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Bean Market’s September subscription featured the El Volador, Loma La Gloria, El Salvador from Padre Coffee.

DETAILS OF ORIGIN:

The Finca Loma La Gloria’s (LLG) story begins in the late nineties when Anny’s dad, a civil engineer, bought a farm and named it after her great-grandfather’s fruit farm. Compared to other Salvadoran coffee growers (who have been in the industry for four generations or more), Anny’s family is ‘new’ to the industry.

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The Maling Room – Villa Galicia, El Salvador

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Bean Market’s August subscription featured Villa Galicia, Concepcion De Ataco, El Salvador from The Maling Room.

DETAILS OF ORIGIN:

Over 150 years ago, Don Manuel Ariz left Galicia, Spain and arrived in concepcion de Ataco, Ahuachapán – at this time, coffee planting was starting to take hold and Ariz invested in small lots of land nearby, beginning with 13.5 flat-clay-lime soil hectare, which is now today VillaGalicia.

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Rumble Coffee Roasters – Santa Isabel, Guatemala

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Bean Market’s August subscription featured Santa Isabel, Guatemala from Rumble Coffee Roasters.

DETAILS OF SANTA ISABEL:

Santa Isabel is a family farm that was founded in 1875. It is owned by Luis Valdés (who has been running the farm since 1961), and managed by his son Luis.

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The Queensberry Pour House – El Limoncillo, Nicaragua

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Bean Market’s August subscription featured The Queensberry Pour House. QPH’s featured coffee is from producer Erwin Miersich, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, sourced through Silo Coffee.

DETAILS OF ORIGIN:

El Limoncillo is run by producer Erwin Mierisch. The Mierisch family have been farming coffee for over 100 years, and the farm has been passed down from generation to generation. They are focused on producing extremely high quality, shade-grown coffee.

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Omar & The Marvellous Coffee Bird – Guji Nefas Farm, Sidama, Ethiopia

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Bean Market’s July subscription featured Omar & The Marvellous Coffee Bird. Coffee Bird’s selected beans are from the Guji Nefas Farm, Sidama, Ethiopia. Co-Owner of Coffee Bird, Andy Gelman visited the farm in 2013 with MTC Coffee Brokers.

DETAILS OF GUJI NEFAS FARM:

The Guji Nefas Farm is a natural processing farm. It is situated 514km away from the Ethiopian capital city Addis Ababa. It has been producing coffee since the 2000 and consists of 200 hectares.

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Code Black Coffee Roasters – Aricha Keble G1, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

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Bean Market’s July subscription featured the Aricha Keble G1, Yirgacheffe from Code Black Coffee Roasters. Code Black’s selected beans are from a mill in the Aricha division of Idido Valley located 8kg northwest of Yirgacheffe town.

DETAILS OF ARICHA KEBLE G1:

The selected beans are from a mill in the Aricha division, Idido Valley located 8km northwest of Yirgacheffe town, Ethiopia. There are two mills in the same region, and the other one is closer to Yirgacheffe town. Code Black chose the Aricha mill because of its unique and intense fruity character.

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