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...
Equitable Storytelling in Coffee | Reflecting on the Traceability Summit by Digital Coffee Future
Last year, Pachamama CEO and Co-Founder Thaleon Tremain joined speciality coffee industry leaders across all points in the supply chain to discuss transparency, digitization and...
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...
Pachamama on the Co-op Scoop Podcast
A Cooperative Supply Chain, from Farmer to Consumer For Cooperative month this past October, we had the privilege of speaking with Sean Eakins, the general manager...
A Conversation with Pachamama Coffee Cooperative's Board of Directors
PRESIDENT MERLING PREZA Sacramento CA - This conversation with Pachamama co-founders Merling Preza (PRODECOOP) and Carlos Reynoso (Manos Campesinas) was recorded by Johanna Abasto in October 2019. It has...
Guatemala 2016 - Cooperative to Cooperative Trade
In November of 2016, I had the honor of traveling to Guatemala with a group of U.S. cooperative leaders led by the National Cooperative Business...
From the Ground Up: Farmer Owned Brands on the Rise
BY THALEON TREMAIN July-August 2011 First published in the Cooperative Grocer A growing category in grocery retail embraces farmer-ownership What do the following have in common:...