Crop to Cup Coffee Importers

01/17/2025

03/11/2024

Estamos emocionados de expandir el Programa Buen Café (GCP) para 2024 en asociación con .cafe, APG y el estado de Puebla.⁠
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Good Coffee Program es un camino para los pequeños productores que desean conocer el valor de lo que producen y construir relaciones más directas y de largo plazo con tostadores internacionales. Es una forma diferente de vender, que requiere más paciencia y planificación, pero que paga precios en función de la calidad en taza. Si te tomas en serio la calidad, te invitamos a participar.⁠
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10/27/2023

ETHIOPIA 2024 HARVEST PREVIEW 🇪🇹 ⁠
C2C Sourcing Team: Introducing Asnake Nigat⁠
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Of all of the unions in Ethiopia, none has had such an outsized impact on a region’s perceived quality potential as quickly as Kata Muduga. When we started working in Ethiopia, in 2014, Kata Muduga didn’t exist yet; the then-semi-obscure cooperatives in Agaro—those that existed back then—all exported through the massive Oromia Union. They’d been organized as part of a Technoserve project based in Jimma and, with financing assistance and technical support, built washing stations and garnered reputations for quality. In 2016, the cooperatives established a new Union to better serve their needs, Keta Muduga, and hired Asnake Nigat as their general manager.⁠
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In December of last year, we visited the Union’s offices in Agaro en route to the Kenissa Cooperative and spent a few hours with Asnake. Asnake's background in quality management runs deep: before joining the Union at its inception in 2016, he was part of Technoserve’s project in Western Ethiopia and, with Moata Raya, our sourcing lead in Ethiopia, organized, trained and advised these cooperatives. Asnake's skill, experience and talent for fostering smallholder economic welfare through promotion of quality is apparent in Kata Muduga's success.⁠
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We're thrilled to welcome Asanake onto the Crop to Cup team full time ahead of the 2023-2024 harvest, where he'll manage our activities in Western Ethiopia.

07/03/2023

Crop to Cup and Showroom are closed today & tomorrow July 3-4 in observance of Independence Day

06/19/2023

Crop to Cup and Showroom are both closed today in observance of Juneteenth

10/14/2022

Our friends at in Berkeley are hosting a free, two-day roasting and cupping event Nov 5-6. We'll be there as representing our small bag division .coffee and showcasing our sample roaster. If you're in the Bay Area come on by—we'll be bringing along samples of some of the standouts on our Offer sheet for you to roast and taste.⁠
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It's free but a ticketed event—you can grab yours through the link in bio.⁠
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10/12/2022

So far, we've collected over a pallet of roasted coffee in support of thanks to our friends at , , , , , , and 🇺🇦🙏⁠
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If you're interested in joining in, we need all coffee submissions by the end of next week (let us know if you're sending any so we can watch for it in the case of shipping delays).⁠
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10/03/2022

MRS. GEMEDECH FULASA, Yirgacheffe Idedo, SNNPR, Ethiopia 🇪🇹

Last year, we imported our first coffee from a woman-owned single farm in Ethiopia from Mrs. Gemedech Fulasa—whose farm in the Idedo region of Yirgacheffe sits at an elevation of 2050 meters.

While land inheritance in the Gedeo culture typically goes to male children, Mrs. Gemedech is an only child; when her father passed away in 2011, she inherited his 4.5 hectare coffee farm and now shines as one of the few woman coffee farmers—and one of the farmers producing the highest quality—in Yirgacheffe.

A mix of Wolisho, Dega and Kurume landraces grow in a regenerative agroforestry at Mrs. Gemedech’s farm under the canopy of fruit and food staples. Fallen leaves and coffee pulp hauled from local mills are the main source of compost. Enset trees (false Banana) across the farm collect water from the rainy season inside their trunks and release it to the ground during the dry season. This helps the soils retain moisture all year round. According to Mrs. Gemedech, she does not use inorganic fertilizers or pesticides, and, since she processes her harvest using the natural/sundried process, her environmental waste and impact are minimal.

The liberalization of the Ethiopian coffee industry in 2018 enabled this relationship—which is a model for the region. By exporting directly through her own export license, Mrs. Gemedech is able to receive 88% of the FOB export price, resulting in substantially increased income compared to the conventional model of selling cherry to ECX or private washing stations.

In the cup ☕️: Malbec, lavender, grape, dark plum, dried blackberry, francencense. 87.5

✨ Request a sample through the link in bio ✨