La Casita
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La Casita
The space we call home. A collective of our shared ideas, visions and accomplishments. Travel on our journey through the coffee fields of member owners to our cafés and beyond. This is where we can share our joys, our struggles, our ideas and passion for what we do each and everyday working for coffee farmers.
Preserving Ecosystems with Organic, Shade Grown Coffee
Clean water protections, biodiversity preservation and carbon sequestering. This isn’t the typical thing your mind goes to when you think about coffee. But in the hills of Huatusco Mexico, the...
News
Choosing Pachamama Is Making a Difference
In 2019 Pachamama Co-founder and President of the board of directors, Merling Preza visited Sacramento, CA and Pachamama Coffee HQ for the annual board of...
Cooperatives Offer a Better Way to do Business
When you consider a business model you might think of a group of investors or maybe a charismatic inventor or entrepreneur in the right place...
The Cooperative Café | Sacramento Natural Foods Coop
Pachamama was thrilled to open the all new Cooperative Café on November 1st with our long time partners Sacramento Natural Foods Cooperative. This project has...
A Collab Fit for Co-op Month | Grass Roots Farmers Cooperative
We are thrilled to announce our newest partnership with Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative this month with the launch of their newest product: Coffee Rub Bacon....
Principle 6 Cooperation among Cooperatives | Where to Find Pachamama Coffee
In part of celebrating Co-op Month and honoring Principle 6 of Cooperatives: Cooperation Among Cooperatives, we want to highlight our cooperative partners who continue to...
Celebrating the Success of the Cooperative Model | Co-op Month
Every October, cooperative businesses around the country come together to raise awareness of a trusted, proven way to do business and build communities by celebrating...
Journey to the Origin (Part 1)
By Rosa Angelica Sarabia I could hardly believe my eyes as we drove down the winding two-lane road from Xalapa to Huatusco. With the golden hour...
Tadesse Meskela and the OCFCU Bring Clean Water to the Community
This month we featured a light roast single origin coffee from Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia in our Coffee CSA with exquisite notes of jasmine, spice and milk...
2021 International Day of Cooperatives: Rebuild Better Together
International Day of Cooperatives July 3, 2021 The International Cooperative Alliance defines a cooperative as “an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their...
Community Supported Agriculture: What is it and Why is it Important?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a system that allows for consumers and producers to build a closer relationship within the food system. In this model,...
The Role and Power of Cooperatives: Merling Preza at SCA Re:co Symposium 2019
In 2019, Pachamama President and PRODECOOP General Manager, Merling Preza, spoke at the Speciality Coffee Association’s Re:co Speciality Coffee Symposium. She sat down with Kim Elena...
Meet Merling Preza, Co-founder and President of Pachamama Coffee and General Manager of PRODECOOP
Meet our co-founder and president, Merling Preza, general manager of PRODECOOP in Estelí, Nicaragua. Ms. Preza recently visited Pachamama's East Sacramento café, where she gave...
2021 SCA Sustainability Award Finalist: Pachamama Coffee Cooperative
Pachamama Coffee Named Finalist: 2021 Specialty Coffee Association's Sustainability Award for Business Model March 18, 2021 - The Speciality Coffee Association (SCA) hosts a series of...
Women Coffee Farmers
Women's History Month is not just about remembering the impact of women who came before us, it is also about learning to recognize those who continue paving...
Celebrating Women's History Month
This month marks Women’s History Month! We at Pachamama will continue to celebrate some of the amazing women leaders who are farmer-owners of Pachamama Coffee. ...