News, events, coffee education and fun from all of us here at Thread Coffee Roasters.
The Paez are the largest indigenous group in Colombia. Fondo Paez was created with the primary goal of recuperating traditional argicultural knowledge and indigenous culture, which had been buried by centuries of conflict and oppression. Thread brings you a coffee...
Thread's Community-Supported Coffee program is back and better than ever, as a new coffee-refill program! Get your pick of freshly-roasted coffee, when you want it, starting Nov. 1st at Red Emma's.
A visit with Fondo Paez reveals how farmers have been coping with climate change My first visit to Fondo Paez was a year and a half ago, March 2013. Yuri and several members of Fondo Paez welcomed me to Santander de Quilichao up in the mountains of the Cauca...
Next we head to Jambolo to visit some of the farms of Fondo Paez members
Michelle and Casey travel to the department of Cauca, Colombia to meet up with producer partners Fondo Paez and their new exporter, ExpoCoSurCa A worker cooperative getting coffee from an importing cooperative getting coffee from an exporting cooperative getting...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 opportunities for...