Let's Talk Coffee

Author: Lois Maffeo

www.coffeegeek.com

Your favorite coffee roaster is in Topeka, they buy green coffee from a Fair Trade cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico that comes through an importer in Portland. How does this unique group of individuals find common ground to agree on high-impact issues like green coffee quality, cupping calibration and sustainability? How do they create a secure supply chain that reduces risk and builds equity? Fax? Skype? E-mail? Sure, those work. But Sustainable Harvest Specialty Coffee Importers in Portland, Oregon, have created a new business model called Relationship Coffee that brings these issues to the table in face-to-face meetings and onsite partnership building. And each year there is an opportunity for participants in the Relationship Coffee model to gather. It’s an event called Let’s Talk Coffee.

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