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 | 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...
by Thread | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog
This month, Thread would like to feature our new coffee from Guatemala! The APECAFORM (Asociación de Pequeños Caficultores Orgánicos Maya-Mames) cooperative is made up of approximately 400 members in 17 communities on the slopes of the volcano Tajumulco in the...
by Thread | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog
We spent a day visiting with the Permata Gayo members in the village of Tunjung Sari. We began at a house meeting, where we were able to talk with the farmers about why they were working with Permata Gayo, what were the benefits and what were the challenges they were...