by Thread | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog
Thread heads out to Apia, in Risaralda, Colombia to check out new farms. To start the trip, I met up with Karl from Direct Origin Trading. We were looking to see if we could experiment with getting a microlot from AsoApia, an association of farmers in Apia. A microlot...
by Thread | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
The Pangoa cooperative, in Peru, has an internal lab that works on quality control, improving agricultural practices and developing strategies to combat roya. Pangoa has been testing Caturra and Typica in a lab against the new hybrids, which include a strain of...
by Thread | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
Pangoa is a cooperative, comprised of 920 members, in the central Amazon region of Peru. Esperanza Dionisio, Pangoa’s general manager, and several other members of the cooperative’s administration took us up into the mountains for community visits, as well as project...
by Thread | Sep 5, 2014 | News
We’re excited to announce the release of our collaboration with Baltimore Print Studios – The Printer’s Devil. When Kim & Kyle came to us with the idea for Printer’s Devil we didn’t know what an endeavor it would be. The rounds of roasting and sampling lasted for...
by Thread | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog, Coffees, Single Origin
This month we’re featuring our new coffee from Honduras – Cafe Organico Marcala S.A. (COMSA). You’ve likely been seeing it in the cafe or getting it in the CSC. COMSA was founded in 2001, with the intent of developing new and alternative development...