Shared Source is a green coffee agency that facilitates robust, transparent and equitable exchange between criteria-driven roasters and small producers. We practice a model that empowers these artisans to farm regeneratively and to make a real living from coffee.

These guys (Colombian team), doing us proud bidding at the Feria of Expo Planadas, Tolima! Some gorgeous lots coming our way!

We purchase from smallholder producers because that’s where we can provide the most value in facilitating relationships between roasters and producers who might otherwise struggle for market access. Ines Perafan and her 17 year-old daughter Sandra work together, tag-teaming between house chores, cooking for the family and for pickers, and processing coffee. They de-pulp coffee with their micro-mill on their 2 hectare farm around 1500 masl, and then bring wet coffee all the way to their home closer to town where their dryer is. Sandra is inspired by her mother’s example, both as a farm manager and as a mother- and she’s motivated to continue her mom’s legacy. Feeling inspired too? Just a few bags of Ines and Sandra’s coffee are still available!

GUATEMALA, por fin! Guat lots have arrived in Seattle AND New York, and they represent hard work along every step of the supply chain. And the coffees are tasting so, so good. Like this lot, from Cruz Perez who is pictured. His coffee is sweet and sparkling, with a full and creamy body. He leads the ASDEFLOR cooperative, and championed the building of their collective wet mill, including the recent installation of raised beds for slow and even drying. We’re proud to focus our purchasing in Huehuetenango from smallholder farmers like Cruz. Samples, you say? You got it- just make your request loud and clear! Want to know more about the different coffees Shared Source purchased in Guatemala this year, you say? You got it- we just so happen to lay it out in our stories- right now!

We believe that payment needs to be set on a basis wholeheartedly divorced from the commodity price model and should apply across 100% of coffee purchased by a ‘specialty’ roaster, not just select feature coffees. Want to know more? See our stories and the Pricing highlight. #theygetwhatyoupayfor #powertotheproducer

Friends, neighbors, cousins, pals, comrades, bosom buddies, chums, mates and even frenemies- we’re heading up to Seattle THIS THURSDAY, May 30 at 10am because we want to cup and share yummy coffees with you. Dorothea Coffee is kindly lending us their space and we’ll be cupping fresh crop Guats, shiny Colos, and perhaps a Kenya or two. The place to be is 1225 S Angelo St.- we can’t wait to see you there! ☀️🌱✌️

Willington Ultengo’s coffee from his small, 2 hectare farm Los Naranjos in La Argentina, Huila (Colombia!) is miraculously still available at the Green Room. This was a tiny lot- only 3 bags- but it was too good to pass up on, and we’re a committed buyer of Willington’s coffee. This is a great chance for a smaller roaster to pick up a full lot! Willington is a treat to work with- he’s experimenting with processing, planting new varietals on his farm, and actively transitioning away from chemical inputs on his farm. He leaves his coffee cherries to ferment under controlled conditions for 24 hours, before de-pulping cherries and fermenting for another 24 hours in an open tank before drying under shade cloth. This beaut of a coffee is juicy, and tastes like fresh cranberry with a velvety and lasting deep brown sugar sweetness. Have you had his coffee before? Let us know what you loved about it! DM or email to get samples- you know you want to. ✍️

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