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Green Coffee Beans Blog2023-03-21T15:49:27-04:00
  • Coffee roaster and green coffee consultant, Emily Smith.

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 [...]

  • Riley Thomson leads the coffee farmer support team in Costa Rica.

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 [...]

  • At the Mamsera green coffee cooperative, in northern Tanzania, Mary Shayo is the influential secretary.

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 [...]

  • Green coffee buyer Jim Osborn

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 [...]

  • Dirck SIckmuller, cupping coffe in Kaimbu County, Kenya.

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 [...]

  • Roberto Cardona, coffee farmer support organization (FSO) leader in Guatemala.

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 [...]

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