Day two of my awesome origin trip in Costa Rica began with a visit to Coffee Source Inc. coffee exporters. Arnoldo Leiva, longtime friend of Portland Roasting Coffee, picked us up and brought us to his office. He is the General Manager at Coffee Source, owned by the Vargas family. The Vargas family also owns coffee [...]
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Walk for Water Needs You!
The Walk for Water and Benefit Concert are rounding the bend. We hope you have marked your calendars for the two-day fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, March 21 and Monday, March 22. Sign up at our site today and corral some friends to form a relay team. You can test your strength (how much water can [...]
How to Buy Coffee in Colombia
I already referred to this topic in the past but not in detail. I would like to write in a very simple way about the current process of grading and pricing the coffee in Colombia right after the dry parchment leaves the farm.
In Colombia, the coffee is mostly traded in dry parchment with average moisture [...]
Blogging on Blogging
When someone at work emails me to tell me “Hey you’re famous!” I could be forgiven for wanting to know why? Somebody, somewhere I’ve never met blogged about me on a blog I’ve never heard of until now! What’s more they said really nice things about me – Really!!- “Highy informative and engaging” they wrote [...]
