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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Roast Magazine‘s July/August 2019 issue, and is reprinted here with permission. You can view the original piece in a free online preview here and download a pdf of the article, courtesy Roast Magazine. Coffee Leaf Rust: Past, Present and Future in the Fight Against Fungus Part I By […]

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on October 3, 2018; it is reprinted here with permission. Baristas, roasters and cuppers, myself included, are quick to invoke the contributions of art and science in our field. Growing, processing, roasting, brewing, and sensory analysis all require a fair degree of scientific rigor before […]

Royal sources coffee from every corner of the globe and I am always amazed at how much all of us at origin have in common despite the vast distances between us. I recently interviewed two women working in the coffee industry, one from Brazil and one from Ethiopia. Miriam Monteiro de Aguiar from Brazil and […]

Vava Angwenyi is the founder of Vava Coffee, a Kenyan social enterprise that works with smallholder coffee farmers, women, and youth, utilizing training to provide marginalized community members with an opportunity to move out of poverty. She recently spoke about her endeavors at Re:co Symposium in Seattle, and wrote this article for us after visiting […]

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 […]

How is Climate Effecting the Spread of Leaf Rust? by Kevin Stark Editor’s Note: This is part of a continued series on our commitment to the Catracha Quality Project. Look for further articles and for the arrival of these coffees in the coming months. We have a few of these coffees available SPOT in both […]