These stand-out offerings allow the coffee curious to explore the best tastes of the season. Dive into the flavors and the stories that highlight how our sourcing relationships are bearing (delicious) fruit.

Women in Coffee Series

Organic Cloudbreak

Mexio | Summer 2025

Light Roast

Sweet & Bright
Maple, Honey, Orange, Floral

Farmer Co-op: Comon Yaj Noptic

Origin: Chiapas, Mexico

Elevation: 1,200+ MASL

Chiapas, Mexico has been long heralded for its beauty, biodiversity and delicious coffee, but much like other regions throughout Latin America, violence, migration, coffee prices and food insecurity have had lasting effects on the farmers that grow coffee.

Despite these continuing challenges, a small group of women farmers have pushed forward over the last decade with a vision to diversify their income and showcase their quality. Often in farming, to diversify income, farmers do what they already do well: farm, choosing to expand into additional crops. These women were already members of the coffee farming co-op Comon Yaj Noptik in Chiapas. But in their case, they hatched a plan that had them stretching into completely new skill sets, to take coffee beyond the stage that it typically ends in a coffee co-op. They formed a co-op within a co-op, to sell specialty coffee, ready to brew(!), into the local market.

The enterprise is called “Café Metik,” or “Big Woman,” and the 18 women members do it all. They begin by selling their freshly harvested green coffee to the business. From there, each member shares in the work, which includes many technical steps: milling, roasting, grinding, and packaging. Of course, to have this all flow as a functioning business, they have also developed business management and financial skills, and handle the sales, marketing and distribution of the product to their local market. And, as it is a co-op, in addition to the daily work, they govern the organization together, filling the positions on their board, which are voted on by the members.

Despite challenges in transportation and rising costs, Café Metik continues to build momentum and sales.

Downloads

POS materials kit

Includes:

• Story PDF for Display (8.5" x 11")

• Bulk Coffee Bin Card - Square (3.75" x 4.125")

• Bulk Coffee Bin Card - Rectangle (5.125" x 3.625")

• Airpot Label (3" x 4")

• Social Media Kit

For more information about selling this coffee in your store or cafe, call (774) 776-7333

Organic Cold Brew

Ethiopia | D.R. Congo

Full City Roast

Fruity & Bright

Raspberry, Chocolate Ice Cream, Blueberry

Farmer Groups: Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union & SOPACDI

Origins: Ethiopia, D.R. Congo

Varietals: Bourbon, SL-14 & SL-28

Elevation: 1300-1888 MASL

This cold brew coffee blend was specifically designed to be smooth and chocolatey, but it also tells the story of co-ops in Africa that have formed a new bond across geographic and cultural borders. The origins of this blend are exquisite, each reaching elevations that surpass 1,500 MASL. On these high slopes, farmers work hard to cultivate great quality beans. In 2011, we began working with the small farmer co-op SOPACDI and were excited to introduce the US specialty market to coffee from the DRC. Beth Ann, our Quality Manager, noted that this young co-op didn’t have a cupper on staff, and she offered to help them find and train one. Over the last 2 and a half years, we have supported both this person and this vital function through training and crossborder exchanges with our producer partners in Ethiopia. Here is how that work has unfolded:

2012: Beth Ann travels to DRC to help identify a copper for SOPACDI: Dunia ‘Moises’ Muhindo.

2013: Moises travels by bus to Uganda to work on roasting and cupping with Beth Ann and Anne Marie, the cupper from Gumutindo co-op.

2014: Beth Ann returns to DRC to work with Moises on intermediate cupper training.

2015: Moises flies to Ethiopia to meet Mike, Equal Exchange’s Coffee Quality Coordinator for a 4-day seminar with Quality Manager Dame Regassa of Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union.

Printable PDF for display

How to Brew a Toddy

For more information about selling this coffee in your store or cafe, call (774) 776-7333