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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...
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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...
¡Vamos a mí casa! Guest blog by Theo Bernados
“¡Vamos a mí casa!”, Manuel implores me. After an hour of showing me his coffee fields, this brawny yet soft spoken Guatemalan farmer invites me...
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...
Guest Post: "From Cooperative to Cooperative"
This post was written by Tim Flores of Community Food Cooperative in Bellingham, WA. A long time Co-Op advocate and friend of Pachamama Coffee, Tim...
Women in Coffee: Celebrating International Women's Day With Tonita From San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua
BY LAUREN TABER Across the highland region of Nicaragua, one will see a diversity of wildlife darting across twisting mountain roads, signs advertising the sale...
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...
Organic, Shade Grown Coffee in Nicaragua
Description: Tour the small-scale organic coffee farm owned by Heriberto Alteminaro and his family in Nicaragua. Organic production on the farm is not only good for...
Adelante. Raul Del Aguila And Pachamama
Building A Farmer Owned Coffee Cooperative I first met Raúl in Costa Rica. He was a genuine, humble man with a great passion for life....
Caterina Yac Shares Her Story From Guatemala
Coffee producer and Pachamama Coffee Cooperatve member, Caterina Yac, talks about her love of working in the coffee industry and how her production goes directly to Pachamama...
Pourover Coffee with Sofia Vanegas
How do you brew your coffee every morning? Pour-over, french press, standard coffee machine? It’s probably quite different than how Sofia Vanegas, small-scale coffee farmer in...
Video: Tour a Coffee Processing Facility in Huatusco, Mexico
The farmers cooperative La Union Regional de Huatusco in Mexico is an amazing place. Small-scale farmers organized to help themselves and their environment. And their organic coffee is first...
Prodecoop’s Youth Education Program “Estudiando Con Café” Excels In Nicaragua.
Pachamama Coffee Co-op’s founding member PRODECOOP in Nicaragua provides its farmers with social benefits, as documented in this short film produced by PRODECOOP.
Video: Tour the COCLA Cooperative of Peru
At Pachamama, the farmers own the company. This means better coffee for you, more money for farmers and a healthier environment for all. And it...
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