Awards and Acknowledgements
The New York Times · December 2024
CEO and co-founder Thaleon Tremain opens this national report on rising prices — "Over time, we're going to see higher prices. Supply is not meeting demand."
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Cook's Illustrated · February 2025
America's Test Kitchen editors placed the Roaster's Choice subscription in their top tier, praising a Nicaragua medium roast with vanilla, pear and chocolate flavor notes.
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Specialty Coffee Association · 2021
Recognized as the first global cooperative in North America wholly owned by coffee producers — growers capture the retail value of their own harvest.
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May/June 2026
Who Owns The Future of Coffee?
An examination of governance and risk across specialty coffee, naming Pachamama a counterpoint to the assumption that farmer ownership slows a business down.
February 2026
Regenerative Organic Certification® for Perú and Machu Picchu Coffees
Two flagship coffees earned Regenerative Organic Certified® status — farming that restores soil health, strengthens ecosystems and supports farmer livelihoods.
December 2025
Featured Case Study — How to Make Sustainability a Shared Practice
The SCA's companion guide to its Equitable Value Distribution report features Pachamama as a model of producer governance.
October 2024
Seed to Cup Connections with UC Davis
Coverage of the campus partnership supplying two student-run coffee houses in Davis and the UC Davis Health campus in Sacramento.
October 2024
Sipping From the Cup of Access and Equity
Thaleon Tremain's path from the Peace Corps to co-founding Pachamama, tracing the cooperative's origins with COCLA, PRODECOOP, Manos Campesinas, La Unión Regional and Oromia CFCU.
September 2024
Coffeeology, with Peter Giuliano
The SCA's chief research officer names Pachamama as an ethically sourced recommendation in this episode on the science and history of coffee.
May 2024
Board of Directors Convenes in Sacramento
Farmer-owner board members gathered for their annual meeting alongside the inaugural Terra Madre Americas event.
April 2022
A Cooperative Cup
A profile of Thaleon Tremain and the cooperative's model, published around the opening of the El Dorado Hills roastery.
April 2022
Placerville Coffee Shop Becomes a Pachamama Café
Coverage of the Placerville location's transition from Totem Coffee Roasters to a Pachamama café.
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