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.

⚡️Fresh crop Colombia microlots are in!⚡️ This container represents the best of our work: the cultivation of long-term relationships with producers to pay transparent prices for high-quality lots. We’ve worked closely with Yamid Quinayas and his mother Edilma pictured here for many years now, and they know that they can count on us to return season after season to purchase their coffee. With the confidence that we’ll return to pay fair prices, they’ve taken extra steps to invest in the quality of their production, including processing varietals separately (like Yamid’s 100% Tabi lot that just arrived) and building a new two-story dryer with the help of a zero-interest loan from us. Edilma’s coffee has been added into our micro-regional blend, Amigos del Huila- which happens to be tasting better than ever right now. Coffees from Yamid and Edilma are available now- Get in touch if you want to join us in our support of the Quinayas family.

Amigos! Come join us in a rare opportunity to cup with Andrew and Michelle together during Andrew’s flash visit to Portland. We’ll have fresh hot microlots from Colombia being unloaded in Seattle right now, and a few other surprises too. And amigos in Seattle? The trip down is not far at all. If Andrew can come to Portland from Melbourne (via Colombia at that!), you can travel from Seattle. We can’t wait to share these lots with our friends, new and old. Plan to be there, and see you soon! ⚡️✨🥄

Jairo Nuñez and Yominson Trujillo’s coffees are just a few of the Colombian microlots that are about to land in Seattle later this week. We’re committed to purchasing from smallholder farmers who are transitioning towards farming without the use of chemicals- if you want to join us in supporting Jairo, Yominson, and many other farmers in Colombia by buying their coffee, let us know! We have a few stunner lots still available- hit us up, hello@sharedsource.co.

Primed and ready to go! Harvest is beginning in Huehuetenango as we speak.
For those unaware, the coffee berries are fed into this guy, sometimes with the aid of water. Upon entry, the rotation of the toothed drum against the metal surface results in a sheering action, which liberates the seed from the skin. The machines can be altered to be most efficacious with smaller or larger seeds, depending on the requirements. This is part 36 of 87 individual processes that get us from soil to green coffee. (Okay, I made that number up, but you get the idea).
#pasoapaso

While *pre first picking* picking is getting underway in our favourite regions in Guate, the communicating parts of the people connected to these legs and feet (belonging to Andrew and Michelle) remind you that now is a good time to get stuck in to planning your requirements for grand cru Guatemalan goodness for May arrival onwards.
More prosaically: * now is the time to pre book Guatemalans via Shared Source. * With the market price of coffee presently below the cost of production, producers need to know soon if this whole caper (especially paying pickers more to pick well) is even worth it ... a specialty coffee price advised beforehand is the only way.

#prebooknow!
#chooseyourownpattern
#hopscotchyourwaytogoodcoffeebuying

While roasters rightly continue to celebrate current year Guatemalan coffees***, we’re excited to have arrived to Guatelindo to commence pre-harvest chats with our amigos (including negotiating parchment storage in grainpro as is modelled here with Roberto). We’re super happy to report that the season ahead is looking tip top from a quality point of view, and we’re preparing to open up our wallets to pay well and reward quality of agriculture too. We stand strongly against opportunistic bolsa-priced coffee - please make contact with us if you’re a roaster and are interested to know more. We can’t wait to chat- hello@sharedsource.co *** good lots remain available in The Green Room and Continental Terminals. Hit us up if you want to augment your offering with nicely credentialed, versatile and tasty micro-blends and micro-lots at reduced prices to make room for incoming lots. 🙌 Roberto
Disfruta! ☕️☕️ and say no to 📉

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