From hiking through the mountains of Honduras to handshaking in corporate boardrooms, this coffee adventure has opened my eyes, and hopefully yours, to the world beyond the everyday cup of coffee. This story is about coffee, but not how it tastes or looks or makes one feel. It is about coffee as a human connector, [...]

BUNN-O-Matic Corporation’s At Home division of personal brewers doesn’t have the market weight of their commercial line. “We are small in the at home retail products, we tell the truth here, we are about the smallest in the retail market but yet the most engaged,” BUNN Chief executive officer, Hy Bunn admits. Because of this, [...]

Intelligentsia Coffee, headquartered in Chicago, IL, takes a unique approach to coffee. They see coffee as an expression of nature, and as such “we want to step back and let nature do its work,” says buyer Sarah Kluth. The 27 million dollar-a-year company does this by focusing on quality and working directly with producers across [...]

On a spring Saturday afternoon, the Beanhive in Galesburg, Ill. is lively in a quite kind of way. All of the 15 or so tables in the coffee house are full of people reading, or working on their computers—silently enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. John, Beanhive’s owner, is busy behind the small counter training an employee. [...]

Up until this point I’ve looked at the impact of coffee on Hondurans and Honduras. I have traced coffee production from planting seedlings all the way to selling dried, coffee beans for export. But underlying this discussion of coffee in Honduras has been the idea that the coffee being grown, harvested, dried and processed isn’t [...]

Awareness and demand for certified agricultural products in developed countries, especially Europe and the United States has steadily increased over the past few years. Organic and Fair Trade are probably the most widely known of these certifications. The organic coffee industry has had an average 21 percent annual growth for the past five years, compared [...]

I have posted this short clip because I have realized that still pictures aren’t quite cutting it when it comes to sharing the sheer physical beauty of coffee farms and the landscapes where they are located. This series of shots was taken at Freddy Espinoza’s farm in La Laguna. His property is at such a [...]