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Farm Gate Coffee™
Farm Gate Coffee is the name we give to our direct trade coffee buying program. Farm Gate pricing means that we have negotiated a price directly with the farmer "at the farm gate," that is, without any of the confusing export and import fees.
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Podcast Episode 19: Kenya Coffee: Growing, Trading and Marketing
A while back we had Mary Maina Manyeki visit us in Oakland, and had a great conversation about her experiences as a Kenya coffee farmer.
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Another Home Roaster Takes the Leap
Sweet Maria's customer jumps into his own coffee business
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Import Partners and Direct Trade
If you've ever visited our warehouse, you may have noticed coffee bags with logos other than the "Sweet Maria's", or our sister wholesale business "Coffee Shrub" logos.
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Out with the new, in with the newer!
Regular harvests make Colombia a truly unique coffee producing country.
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Podcast: Coffee Cultivation in Colombia PART 2
The second half of a pair of audio recordings from Tom's Skype conversation with Leonardo Henao who works with many Colombian Farmers.
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Podcast: Coffee Cultivation in Colombia PART 1
The first half of a pair of audio recordings from Tom's Skype conversation with Leonardo Henao who works with many Colombian Farmers.
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Kenya Postcards
You might have one by now but we thought we'd tell you about them them anyways.
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2015 SCAA wrap up
Tim, our product buyer just got back from the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) event/trade show in Seattle.
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Bag it up! How Our Customers Package Their Roasts
November 24, 2015
One of the nicest things about a home roasting hobby is sharing your coffee with others. Maybe it's something special you roast up for the holidays, give to friends and neighbors on occassion, bring to work to share, or maybe you even start a little home based roasting business.
We offer blank bags for roasted coffee and are always curious about how our customers are decorating them. Lately we have switched up our offerings with Matte White bags that are easier to sticker or stamp.
Here's a few Sweet Maria's customers that have been doing a great job of branding their roasts.
No. 6 Coffee - Nelson, British Columbia
"I'm one of those people that can't help but turn everything I do into a business. I'm currently roasting about 20lbs a week with a motorized Whirley Pop. I think I'll miss it quite a bit once I upgrade to a bigger roaster. I own a 1902 Chandler & Price letterpress that I use to print my bags with. It's a bit of a challenge but it's worth the effort."
-Denis LeBlanc
Colby Coffee Roasters - Davis, California
"Colby Coffee Roasters is my own home roastery, fed off of my obsession
for coffee, I am a barista after all as well. We truly roast to order
with a small sample roaster. Photo is of our Sumatran and our Costa
Rican Tarrazú, our current offerings."
-Sammy Hill
Here's a few others that tagged us on Instagram.