Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
Commodity coffee peaked in February 2025. Retail coffee in American supermarkets peaked in April 2026. That is a fourteen-month gap, and understand...
Read the setupCertification describes what a cooperative is allowed to sell, not what it manages to sell. Those are different things, and the gap between them is...
Read the setupThere are two kinds of claim on a bag of coffee. There are the ones designed to be read, which cost almost nothing to make, and there are the ones ...
Read the setupCertification is usually described in terms of what it pays: a minimum price, a premium, better access to buyers. It is much less often described i...
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