August Feature Coffee: Brazil Santa Barbara via Cafe Delas
MORE ABOUT THIS COFFEE FROM THOU MAYEST COFFEE ROASTERS
The Mogiana region, which runs along the São Paulo and Minas Gerais border, is home to some of the most consistently sweet and well-structured naturals produced in Brazil. The region boasts 3500 farmers cultivating a combined area of 202,000 hectares. Producers hand select lots from individual farms and process them to create a smooth, clean, highly consistent end product. Our goal with this coffee is to have a consistent profile from lot to lot, and year to year, making their Eagle Mogiana a coffee that you can rely on year-round.
This Coffee is part of Café Delas: Creating Equity and Building Capacity for Women Growing Coffee
According to the United Nations, if women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the gains in productivity would reduce the number of people experiencing hunger in the world by 150 million. Women reinvest more of their direct earnings into the well-being of their households, communities, and businesses. And yet, with few exceptions, key aspects of coffee as an agricultural endeavor around the world are owned and controlled by men. This must change and Café Delas takes up the challenge of that change.
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What is a Cooperative?
While many of the tasty coffees we enjoy are grown on single estates in faraway lands, cooperatives are a popular model for smaller landholders in areas where community is key to survival. For many coffee growers, this kind of collaboration is for their mutual aid and benefit, as well as cultivating a deeper sense of community.
