Seasonal Coffee Menu
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 North Star
Colombia | December 2025
Light Roast
Warming & Spicy
Fig, Walnut, Cranberry, Brown Sugar
Farmer Co-op: ASPROCAFE Ingrumá
Origin: Caldas, Colombia
Elevation: 1350-1800 MASL
Luz Marina Garcia Ruiz understands the day to day lives of farmers and the broader context of the coffee world. She has a deep-rooted belief in the value of organic farming. She is a connector, an organizer, and knows how to bring people together. As Secretary of the group ASPROCAFE Ingrumá in Caldas Colombia, her professional role unites these passions, leading a team who offers education and training to the co-op members. When Luz is involved, both the training content and the human experience are positive takeaways.
A central training event is Dia del Campo, or Field Day, which her team organizes 3 times per year, with hands-on training for farmers on farm management, composting, quality, and more.
For Luz, growing organic is a responsibility and obligation to mother earth.
“It is well-being, health and life for people, plants and animals. It is to revive the ancestral teachings and to re-believe in the wisdom of nature. Organic coffee is more than a product; it is an exchange of experiences, teamwork, to rescue knowledge, to leave a mark on the coming generations and to face challenges.”
Luz will stand up in front to direct the group, but her objective is to showcase the talents of the farmers and promote their work. She is energetic, persistent and patient, taking time to notice the small details.
Her passion and warmth are contagious.
“Farms are full of opportunities, joy, experiences, great wealth and, above all, a lot of love. In each of them there is an infinite path to build life from life itself. There are cultivated values, traditional knowledge and the heritage of our grandparents. They are farms that produce healthy, high quality and diverse food; they have great potential in natural resources such as clean air, clean water, trees, animals and soils.”
Downloads
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
Luz Marina out in the field
Luz Marina out in the field with members of ASPROCAFE Ingrumá
Luz Marina during a training at her co-op
Luz Marina with Jason Krautkramer, People’s Food Co-op Store Manager, Lacrosse, WI, and Rochelle Prunty, General Manager of River Valley Co-op, during an Equal Exchange delegation to visit the farmers of Asprocafe Ingrumá.
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.
For more information about selling this coffee in your store or cafe, call (774) 776-7333
