Thank you for supporting this lil’ Women Owned Small Business and a happy Women’s Day to all the gals out there kicking butt!
We’re so lucky to work with a crew of women at the top of their game! I’d love to mention a few of our roasters who are doing the heavy lifting for us so we can relax and brew tasty beverages.
Mother Tongue Coffee is roasted by Jen Apodaca, who… “has been roasting since 2005 for a range of well-loved businesses, including McMenamin’s, Intelligentsia, Blue Bottle, and The Crown. She is also a certified Q-Grader, former chair of the Coffee Roasters Guild of America, the 2019 US Cup Tasters Champion, and won second place in the 2022 Roasters Championship.
In 2017 she founded #shestheroaster - which is a visibility campaign that women do indeed roast coffee and also promotes and encourages women in the coffee industry to become professional coffee roasters.”
Little Waves Coffee, 2022 Micro Roaster of the year, is also a Latina-led operation. Not only are they churning out awesome coffees, sustainability and equity are hallmarks of the business as well. In their words, “we strive for sustainability in everything we do from relationship to energy usage. Our Loring S15 Falcon roaster has an 80% reduction in energy usage compared to traditional roasters. Our retail coffee bags are 60% compostable. We divert coffee bi-product chaff to be used in local community gardens. Our roastery & cafes divert nearly all of the coffee compost they create to local gardens and farms.”
But there’s more! We also work with Vignette Coffee, roasted by Mandy Spirito, a dedicated Q-Grader. These coffees are not only an absolute delight to brew, Vignette also ensures transparency and equity all along the supply chain. This goes above basic certifications like fair trade or organic… “we believe in paying producers well beyond their cost of production and living. To accomplish this, we buy from specialty importers, who charge premium prices for access to transparent, high-quality, ethically-sourced green coffee.
Our current selection ranges from $4.30 - $6.95 FOB. To put this in perspective, current commodity grade price is $2.16. For additional perspective, a living income price for a producer in Huila, Colombia is $2.10 FOB. It's worth nothing that the C Market has risen considerably from its historic lows.”
We are proud to work with so many great women all along the supply chain - I didn’t even start to dig in to the stories of amazing women working at origin! - and are grateful for your continued support. Thank you and see you soon!