Fourth-Wave Coffee Will Break All the Barriers
Emily Smith spent several years as a quality-control manager for a large specialty roaster in Washington State before becoming an independent consultant to smaller roasters, helping them to build [...]
In Costa Rica, It’s All About Quality
Riley Thomson is based in San Jose and, after years in the field as a farmer support technician, now oversees the Volcafe Way Farmer Support Organization (FSO) in Costa [...]
Women in Coffee: Tanzania Edition
When women are involved — particularly, when women are board members or are in leadership roles, and especially when there are at least three of them — companies do better. They [...]
Frequently Asked Questions: Answered!
What is a box of green coffee? We sell green coffee in 65-lb, GrainPro-lined cardboard boxes with handles, to make green coffee easier to move, store and stack. The boxes are [...]
Coffee Questionnaire: Nairobi, Kenya
Dirk Sickmueller, general manager at Taylor Winch Coffee Ltd., GO's sister company in Nairobi, selected our incoming Kenyan coffees. We asked him what to expect, how the harvest was and what his [...]
Coffee Questionnaire: Guatemala
For a week in February, Volcafe Way Farmer Support Organization (FSO) leaders from Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala traveled together, playing host and guest in each other’s countries. They [...]