In mid April, I was invited to attend the emergency Rust Summit hosted by World Coffee Research and Guatemala’s PROMECAFE. Along with Susan Aleman, the Director of Programs in our Lima office, I headed to Guatemala city to attend the three-day event. …
Last week our origin office in Lima, Peru had a full house–hosting our Peruvian suppliers and partners for a Let’s Talk Coffee regional event. The three day gathering focused on training and calibration brought together all actors across our Peru …
The annual SCAA Symposium and show is always an incredible event filled with learning and connections, and this year was no different. I have returned from Boston feeling energized about the next big coffee event on my mind–Sustainable Harvest’s Let’s …
Among the very many events happening every year in conjunction with the SCAA Expo, one of our favorites is always the Roasters Choice Award. The competition focuses on the art of coffee roasting–to win, a roaster submits a single-origin coffee …
These past three months we have all seen the reports of the devastation that Coffee Rust Disease (Roya in Spanish) has caused in coffee communities throughout Mexico and Central America. When Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras declared national states of …
Since Saturday, the Sustainable Harvest Colombia team has been traveling with four graduate students from Stanford University’s d.School: a biologist, an economist, and two mechanical engineers. Part of a partnership with Stanford’s d.School that we discuessed in recent blog post. …
On March 8th, the Sustainable Harvest Oaxaca origin office was honored to receive a visit from the U.S Ambassador to Mexico, Anthony Wayne. Ambassador Wayne and other members of the U.S. Embassy staff were in Oaxaca to commemorate International Women’s …
It’s a family affair: every Friday, the 21 families that make of the CAPEMA coffee cooperative of La Cruz del Alto Mayo, Peru head to a shared nursery to plant and care for tree seedlings together. The nursery houses thousands …
Parchment drying is not just a simple checkbox step in the line of specialty coffee processing – it plays a critical role in the final cup quality. In fact, a considerable amount of quality-related problems can be traced back to …
Top of mind for most of us in the coffee industry these days is the growing concern about the Roya disease, also know as Coffee Rust, and its impact on next year’s specialty coffee supply. Earlier this month the Guatemalan …
