On The Ground Global
ANEI Coffee Coop in Northern Colombia
On October 15th I flew to Colombia to meet my friend and Co-op Coffees green buyer Felipe Guardian to visit our partners at ANEI in Northern Colombia. I visited ANEI a couple of years ago and was interested to see how they have grown– both in terms of their...
Las Diosas La Roya Update
Author: Matt Earley — April 28th, 2016 Las Diosas is moving ahead and continuing to make steady recovery progress from the coffee fungus (La Roya) that took the vast majority of their coffee three years ago. With our non-profit partner On The Ground (OTG) we...
Water For All: Project Chiapas
Matt Earley — Chiapas, Mexico — January 2016 To kick-off our 2016 Delegations, I spent the first part of January in Chiapas, Mexico with our partner On The Ground Global. We were there with a delegation of people to visit coffee co-ops and to find out more...
Beyond Coffee
Although all of the efforts the women of Las Diosas are showing in their new coffee crops, it brings us to the obvious question – what are these women doing to survive in the meantime as their income recovers? One approach the women of Las Diosas have recently...
