Sustainability

Partners Coffee is built on the strength of our lasting relationships at origin. We source coffee from around the world from people we know and trust—to produce beautiful coffee, and be the greatest stewards of the land they grow upon. 

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OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

sustainability is core to who we are


OUR PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE

We recognize our responsibility to help build a sustainable supply chain. We work directly with our producing partners, making large, planned and meaningful purchases that provide predictability— ensuring that our purchases of specialty-grade coffee allow our partners the financial security to improve upon their operations and quality of life year after year. 

Through these purchases, we’re able to continue vertically-integrated sourcing projects that provide long-term sustainability. But what does that really look like in practice?

EL RAMO

One of our proudest examples is El Ramo: a sourcing project that focuses on the bi-annual buying of stunning coffees from a single municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia.

Every Colombian coffee on our menu from this region has been discovered through curating components for El Ramo— and the most special coffees are kept isolated and sold on their own on our Single Origin menu.

Los Volcanes Coffee

Another relationship we’re extremely proud of is with Los Volcanes Coffee. Los Volcanes purchases and exports coffee grown by thousands of individual farmers across Guatemala.

They also operate an experimental farm, Finca La Esperanza, in Antigua Guatemala. The purpose of the farm is to experiment with agricultural and processing techniques, study what happens, and share the findings with their member farmers. In doing so, they absorb the risk inherent to experimentation.

Their first project was to divide La Esperanza into four quadrants with different farming practices, including different approaches to conventional and organic farming. What they discovered was that the organic quadrant eventually outperformed the rest of the farm by a factor of four.

In light of that finding, they have focused their research on methods that emphasize organic and circular inputs—with a goal of increasing yields and minimizing risk.

EL RAMO

One of our proudest examples is El Ramo: a sourcing project that focuses on the bi-annual buying of stunning coffees from a single municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia.

Every Colombian coffee on our menu from this region has been discovered through curating components for El Ramo— and the most special coffees are kept isolated and sold on their own on our Single Origin menu.

Los Volcanes Coffee

Another relationship we’re extremely proud of is with Los Volcanes Coffee. Los Volcanes purchases and exports coffee grown by thousands of individual farmers across Guatemala.

They also operate an experimental farm, Finca La Esperanza, in Antigua Guatemala. The purpose of the farm is to experiment with agricultural and processing techniques, study what happens, and share the findings with their member farmers. In doing so, they absorb the risk inherent to experimentation.

Their first project was to divide La Esperanza into four quadrants with different farming practices, including different approaches to conventional and organic farming. What they discovered was that the organic quadrant eventually outperformed the rest of the farm by a factor of four.

In light of that finding, they have focused their research on methods that emphasize organic and circular inputs—with a goal of increasing yields and minimizing risk.


THE MAINSTAY MAP

Our mainstay coffees have their component greens sourced from all around the world. View the origins below and learn about what each coffee contains.

Components: Gora Kone

Brazil

Components: Brooklyn, Bedford

COLOMBIA

Components: Bedford, Brooklyn, Flatiron, Ramo

Ethiopia

Components: Bedford

PERU

Components: Ghost Town

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ORIGIN PARTNERS

Pereira Family: Sertão, Santa Lúcia, Isidro Pereira, Irmãs Pereira


Our Pledge

By pledging to purchase non-commodity priced coffee, we are helping build a secure supply chain while simultaneously allowing our growing partners to invest in their businesses and local communities. Our relationships and annual purchasing of coffees strengthen the security and building of community projects.