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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. Tastes good. Does good.

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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 was born from such key experiences and research.

In early 2008, STREAT Coffee 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.

Why homelessness?

STREAT Coffee believe that every young person should be given the opportunity to reach their potential. This isn’t possible for a young person if they don’t have somewhere safe, affordable and loving to belong.

Streat Coffee Melbourne Central

Streat’s Melbourne Central Cafe

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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.

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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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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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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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Veneziano Coffee – Danch Meng, Ninety Plus Coffee

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Bean Market’s July subscription featured Danch Meng, Ninety Plus Coffees from Veneziano Coffee Roasters. The Danch Meng is a levelup crop, a project by the Ninety Plus team.

DETAILS OF THE FARM:

Danch Meng is part of Levelup, a new project from the creators of Ninety Plus Coffee.

The coffee cherries are small-holder grown with processing overseen by Ninety Plus Coffee. The coffee is hand-picked then naturally dried on raised beds in a covered environment.

The beans’ temperature and moisture levels are constantly monitored throughout the drying process to ensure supreme quality and repeatability.

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