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Omnipresent logo outside the freeze dried coffee factory. Life informs art informs life. And media being a form of art, albeit an emotionally and economically charged one, life informs media informs...
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The Lorax Takes His Coffee Iced
Maybe it’s because all the vegetation down here looks Seussical, but I’m having a Loraxy moment. The reason I support organic agriculture in the name of taking care of the people who produce and eat...
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Worth
Weighing in in Chinchina. Coffee pricing anywhere along the line is pretty much guesswork, but comparing numbers up and down the production chain and from place to place gets even more dicey. The...
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The Magic Formula
When coffee calculates …a magic formula…and an application. The Formula: Back in Juan’s World: Factor 90 and again in Worth I mentioned a “magic formula” that the coops use to determine the price that...
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Water from Above
Finca feeding finca in San Isidro, Acevedo, Huila In Colombia I’ve spent about as much time in offices as I have out in cafetales. This project very early on evolved from being just about coffee...
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Landscapegoats
Coffee cultural landscape in Huila, making it officially not World Heritage, but pretty awesome anyway People become what you tell them they are, and if someone tells people that they live in the land...
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Mutually Supportive
In the previous post in Spanish, I tell the story of arriving on my friend’s family farm in the mountains of Antioquia, Colombia and participating in a sort of spontaneous […]
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Gorilla Coffee: K!ng Kong Cup
Gorilla Coffee has its roots in Brooklyn and is continuing to evolve along with the city’s cutting edge of coffee trends. Gorilla (its two Park Slope shops as a unit) […]
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Juan’s World: Organization of a Coffee Country
Juan’s World: A 5 part mini series on the inner workings of Colombian coffee 2:Organization of a Coffee Country Of Colombia’s 42 some million inhabitants, there are roughly 560,000 coffee growing...
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Juan’s World: Risky Business
Juan's World: A 5 Part Mini Series on the Inner Workings of Colombian Coffee Part 3: Risky Business Having a small family coffee farm and selling the coffee that’s the product of working with the earth...
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Juan’s World: Factor 90
Juan's World: A 5 Part series on the inner workings of Colombian coffee Part 4: Factor 90 When coffee speaks it says, “you have no idea what I’m worth.” When you buy a cup of coffee the number of...
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Juan’s World: Roya, Broca, y Sr. Castillo
Juan’s World: A 5 Part Mini-Series on the Inner Workings of Colombian Coffee Part 5: Roya, Broca, y Sr. Castillo Roya is on the tips of the tongues of everyone who works in coffee. This fast moving...
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