Our Producers
Our coffees are produced mostly from the Cosurca Cooperative in Colombia and Coocafe in Costa Rica. They have composting programs in several of the communities to help generate organic fertilizer and reduce waste which helps to retain their land and maintain their Organic certification.
Using valuable revenue from Fairtrade sales this has allowed Cosurca to stop the cultivation of more than 1,800 acres of coca and poppy.
Cosurca Colombia (Coffee)
Date Established: 1993
Number of Members: 1,090
Annual Production: 16 containers
About the Coffee
Varieties: Typica, Caturra, and Colombia
Elevation: 1400-1900m
Processing: Wet processing and sun drying
Cup Characteristics: medium body, medium high
acidity, and sweet berry flavor
Harvest Season: Apr-Jun
Export Season: May-Oct
Organic Production: 60%
Organic Certification Agency: Biotropico,
Ecocert
Coocafe Costa Rica (Coffee)
Date Established: 1988
Number of Members: 9,590
Annual Production: 6,500 Tonnes
About the Coffee
Varieties: Typica, Caturra, and Colombia
Elevation: 750-1,800m
Processing: Wet processing, sun drying and solar- powered ovens.
Cup Characteristics: varied
acidity, and sweet berry flavour
Harvest Season: Sept-Apr
Export Season: Oct-Jul
Organic Production: 8%
Organic Certification Agency: OCIA
EcoLogica
Conacado Dominican Republic (Chocolate)
Our Chocolate is produced in the Dominican Republic by the Conacado plantation.
Date Established: 1988
Number of Members: 9,590
Annual Production: 6,500 Tonnes
About the Chocolate
Varieties: 29% Trinitario, 65% Forastero, 15% Criollo
Processing: 4-5 Days Fermentation in set boxes, 7 days natural sun drying.
Product Specifications; 7% humidity over 85% fermentation
Harvest Season: March-July (maincrop) October-February (midcrop)
Organic Production: 60%
Organic Certification Agency: BCS,BIO,SUISSE,NOP,DEMETER,OKO Garantie
Cafecoop Costa Rica (Coffee)
Cafecoop is a consortium of 7 co-operatives dedicated to selling and marketing coffees from Costa Rica. It acts as a link betwewen coffee buyers and suppliers with the intention of transparency, tracability and sustainability.
Date Established
Number of Members 15,670
Annual Production 22,706 Tonnes 21 % of the national crop.
cafecoopcr.com
Kasinthula Malawi (Sugar)
Our sugar is produced in Malawi by the Kasinthula plantation.
Date Established: 1996
Number of Members: 282
Annual Production: £172m
About the Sugar
Average Farm Size : 3 Hectares
Processing Mill : Nchalo Suar Mill.
Harvest Season: April- November
Export Seasons; April- March