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Editor’s note: Lowell Powell, partner to Royal’s Marketing & Outreach Director and Catracha Coffee Founder Mayra Orellana-Powell, is the architect of the Catracha Quality Project and a driver behind many of the coffee processing innovations taking place on the ground in Santa Elena’s coffee community. His essay here was a response to Royal’s Home Roasters […]

What do you imagine the work of World Coffee Research looks like? Equator Coffees and The Crown played co-host to a pair of recent events where Greg Meenahan, WCR’s Partnership Director, presented data on sustainability and the progress made with the organization’s help. WCR is just a few years old, established in 2012, has about […]

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in mymarketable.blogspot.com. The article is being republished here with the permission of Liliana Sánchez, founder of MarketAble Trade & Development. Liliana lives in Honduras and helps connect coffee producers with roasters. She is a personal friend to Mayra and an advocate of all things Catracha, and her article […]

November has arrived and that means we are finally entering the cold dry season here in Santa Elena. While many parts of Honduras are gearing up for the harvest, we are still a solid two months away from our first pick, which generally starts in the first weeks of January. Meanwhile, we wait, holding our […]

Every year the international coffee community comes together at the Specialty Coffee Expo. This event brings together professionals from every step of the coffee supply chain to discuss, learn, and make new contacts. 2018 marks a significant milestone for IWCA as we celebrate the organization’s 15th anniversary. As a global network, IWCA connects chapters in […]

A few weeks ago, I summarized a Climate Edge report issued by Dr. Peter Baker regarding the meteorological data gathered on Jose Alejandro Solis’s Finca Huixoc. Our friends Lowell and Mayra Orellana-Powell of Catracha Coffee recently installed 7 of the Climate Edge NEXO meteorological stations around farm areas in Santa Elena, Honduras. Catracha is like […]

It all started with a pretty benign suggestion. Bob Fulmer mentioned the long history of Alfred Klein and coffees from Finca San Carlos to me in passing, and dropped a line introducing us. What followed, over the course of a few weeks, was an exchange totaling over 5000 words and eventually filling numerous blog posts […]