SHARED SOURCE

SHARED SOURCE IS A GREEN COFFEE AGENCY. WE WORK IN SELECT COUNTRIES TO FACILITATE ROBUST, TRANSPARENT AND EQUITABLE TRADE BETWEEN ROASTERS AND SMALL-SCALE PRODUCERS.

WE PRACTICE A MODEL THAT EMPOWERS PRODUCERS TO FARM REGENERATIVELY AND TO MAKE A REAL LIVING FROM COFFEE.

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'tis the season...for parchment samples from our friends and partners in Guatemala! Tables have been cupped, samples evaluated, and blends carefully and painstakingly curated. We're rolling out more blends this year, allowing us to get hyper-regional

🐫 Colombians use the verb "camellar" (literally- "to camel") to mean working hard, like a camel. Here's Nolberto Olaya, camel-ing hard to pick yellow and red caturra cherries while they're ripe on his farm La Cinta. 🐫⁠
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Colombi

Some good news to end the week- our friend Raul had a small roya outbreak here in his gesha plot earlier this year, but he's worked hard to manage it- applying a brew of calcium sulphate and magnesium to the foot of the tree every 15 days, and compli

Some of members here at the ASDEFLOR cooperative in Chanjón, Huehuetenango take turns using their shared wet mill and raised drying beds, and others process their cherries on micro-mills on their farms. This parchment is now at the dry mill, g

Hard-working bandidos from Asiast in Guatemala are loading up their coffee for delivery to be dry-milled soon. Yee-haw! 🤠😷

Freshly milled coffee in Addis being whisked away to its staging position, preparing for its journey to port.

There are lots of ways to know when it's time to wash coffee that's been de-pulped and is fermenting in a tank. Here, Andres Pablo is showing how he rubs beans together to note their change in texture. ⁠Slimy beans covered with mucilage gently glide

Amores de Tarqui! Are we allowed to call our Tarqui Pequeños community lot "a consistently delightful gem" and "a very popular offering", or is that tooting our own horn too much? 😬🎺⁠
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Who cares, we're going to say it! I

Let's talk about a pink bourbon lot. You all know that we're all about the sweetness and consistent reliability of a well-processed caturra lot- and this has not changed one bit! If you want great- nay, spectacular!- caturra lots, send that message n

Spotted out in the wild: our export bags living their best (second) lives in a community garden patch in Seattle! 🌱🌎♻️⁠
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📸by eagle-eyed friend and all-around champion Liz @americanweekends

Benjamin and Cornelio Lopez, hermanos-at-large. Perhaps you've enjoyed Cornelio's pacamara in year's past, or Ben's pristine yellow and red caturra? Or maybe their dad Tadeo's sweet sweet bourbon? Year after year, we love these brothers and their cof

Not-so-single-use plastics! We delivered last year's export Grain Pro bags back to Guatemala for producers to store their fully-dried and cooled parchment- they can keep moisture and water activity more stable, and it's an important step in ensuring