Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series originally published in Tea & Coffee Trade Journal. It is reprinted here with permission. You may download the pdf here, graciously provided by T&CTJ. Reflections on the Purpose and the Path Forward for...
Editor’s Note: Since we published this article about two years ago, demand for coffee grown by women producers has grown tremendously. We’re so very honored to work with these incredible women. I want to use this space to highlight Royal’s current...
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...
Your Green Coffee Supplier: The ABCs At this juncture in my career my personal satisfaction comes from the undeniable fact that individuals, families, and organizations in both coffee roasting facilities and coffee producing regions rely on me and Royal Coffee...
A New Women’s Cooperative in Java Over the last few years I have found space in the coffee industry to express myself as a successful woman. I founded Catracha Coffee and I am the Marketing and Outreach Director for Royal Coffee. I want to use my position with...
An undervalued, understudied coefficient in our series about analyzing green coffee (Part I – Moisture and Water Activity, Part II – Screen Size, Part III – Visual Defects) is density. The fact of the matter is that we don’t have a complete...