“Before the creation of Maya Vinic, I had to deal with middlemen—coyoteros—who would use their own unreliable scales to cheat us out of kilos of coffee. Many told us coffee was used to dye clothes or for medicine...” For several months now, Higher Grounds has had the honor of...
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Meet Jose, Maya Vinic Founder and Farmer
It is for Jose and all those he represents that we strive to share our circular model of business with the larger specialty coffee community, pushing our colleagues and competitors alike to engage more deeply with the issues at the core of coffee-producing communities.
Eastern Congo: the Last Bastion of Specialty Coffee
I’ve been captured by the allure of one of the last standing bastions of potential for specialty coffee production left in the world. I write this as I travel across the world for a second visit to the eastern shore of Lake Kivu in the DRC in less than a year.