by Thread | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog
Michelle and Casey travel to the department of Cauca, Colombia to meet up with producer partners Fondo Paez and their new exporter, ExpoCoSurCa A worker cooperative getting coffee from an importing cooperative getting coffee from an exporting cooperative getting...
by Thread | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog
Thread heads out to Apia, in Risaralda, Colombia to check out new farms. To start the trip, I met up with Karl from Direct Origin Trading. We were looking to see if we could experiment with getting a microlot from AsoApia, an association of farmers in Apia. A microlot...
by Thread | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
Pangoa is a cooperative, comprised of 920 members, in the central Amazon region of Peru. Esperanza Dionisio, Pangoa’s general manager, and several other members of the cooperative’s administration took us up into the mountains for community visits, as well as project...
by Thread | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog
We spent a day visiting with the Permata Gayo members in the village of Tunjung Sari. We began at a house meeting, where we were able to talk with the farmers about why they were working with Permata Gayo, what were the benefits and what were the challenges they were...
by Thread | Mar 15, 2014 | Blog
By Casey McKeel This week I’m in Sumatra visiting the farmers we work with at Permata Gayo. On the ground in Medan, the largest city on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, I’m traveling with Matt Earley of Just Coffee, Florent Gout of Cooperative Coffees,...