New FairChain Harvest: Ready…Set…Go!
Oh we love the smell of red coffee cherries in the morning! Yessirree, it’s that time of year again: harvest time. This harvest season…
Call the Farmer
Moyee goes SDG: Global Challenges, Local Solutions
We’re living in a rapidly changing world and in that world we have to think about long-term solutions and what’s to come. With this…
Can-Do Kilil Scouts a New Coffee Plantation
Moyeesta fans know Kilil already. He’s our man in the coffee fields. We’ve written about him before on this blog. Many times in fact….
Yeehaaw! UTZ and Rainforest Merge (cheaper for us)
If you are at all interested in environmental certifications, then you probably already know: UTZ and Rainforest Alliance are merging. Instead of The Big…
Sneak Peak @ ‘Life Is Unfair’ Impact Report 2017
Has it really been a year since we published our Impact Report and threw an epic party for our fans??? Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!…
This is not fake news: coffee cultivation demands biodiversity (aka Moyee’s Barista Joost finishes his thesis)
A while ago we introduced you to our Traveling Barista Joost. Well, during the winter Barista Joost didn’t travel a whole lot due to a…
Say hello to Kilil, Ethiopia’s can-do coffee gamechanger
Every now and then we serve you short stories of the smallholder farmers growing your premium FairChain beans. Now it’s time you meet Kilil,…
Meet our smallholder: Zewde
The very short stories of the smallholder farmers growing your premium FairChain beans. Meet Zewde (not to be confused with Zewdie, of course). Name:…
Down the rabbit hole: Anne organizes a smallholder training program
A few weeks back Moyee’s supply chain chief headed to Ethiopia to help organize and host Moyee’s very first farmer’s training program. No stranger to…
Coffee Smart: A 5-Step Guide to DIY Composting
The typical smallholder coffee grower in Ethiopia cares for some 700 coffee trees, each one dotted with beautiful red cherries. Beautiful as they are,…
Meet our smallholder: Zerihun
The very short stories of the smallholder farmers growing your premium FairChain beans. Meet Zerihun. Name: Zerihun Zewdie Location: Tega Size of property: 1,5 hectares…
Back 2 School: 105 Smallholders Embrace FairChain Training
This weekend Moyee officially kicked off our ‘Call the Farmer’ smallholder training program at Tega & Tula, our partner plantation in Ethiopia. The program…
Living Income for Dummies: Part I
This is the first of a series of posts about Living Income. The name ‘Living Income’ may sound boring, but it’s really the basis of…
Meet our smallholder: Terefe
The very short stories of the smallholder farmers growing your premium FairChain beans. Meet Terefe. Name: Terefe Adego Location: Tega Size of property: 0,75 hectares Community role:…
Abayneh: Master of the Coffee Universe
Abayneh is the last of the ‘4 A’s’ that accompanied us up into the Ethiopian highlands to help us help our FairChain farmers optimise…
This is Altaye: Plant Doctor Extraordinaire!
Altaye is another one of our promising young collaborators from Jimma University. Because all four students travelling with us through Kaffa have names that…
The world according to Inka: How Ethiopian Smallholders can immediately improve their yields (and finances)
A crucial member of our troupe during our early December road trip through the Kaffa highlands was Inka. Inka is an internationally engaged soil expert…
A quick glance at super student Amanuel
Amanuel is one of our ‘4 A’s’ on this field trip: promising students helping us reach out to more and more smallholder farmers. Amanuel…
Moyee Impact Report 2016: Life’s Unfair
Three years after introducing FairChain coffee to the world, we published our first annual ‘impact’ report. Provocatively titled Life is Unfair, the report doesn’t just recount our victories,…
Mark’s Field Trip: A Photographic Journey
Mark, Kauw, our Chief Impact Officer, recently toured a handful of our FairChain smallholders high up in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. Many of his posts…
Moyee x Jimma University = progress
As Mark travels to Moyee’s various Ethiopian smallholders, he continues to pick up a few friends along the way. On his most recent trip…
Looking for quick wins on Bogale’s farm
A few weeks back we visited Bogale, one of our smallholders and a prominent figure in his local community. This week we paid him…
Bihonegn Buys Himself a WakaWaka
This is Mr. Bihonegn Adelaw, a 55-year smallholder on an incredibly beautiful farm near the Tega & Telu plantation in the Ethiopian highlands. A…
The 2016 Coffee Harvest has begun!!
This week Moyee impact officer Mark Kauw heads to Ethiopia to see how the 2016 harvest is taking shape. He’ll use the Tega &…
Meet Farmer Bogale
Meet Mr. Bogale Gebre-Yesus. Not only is he the owner a very awesome name, but Bogale is also a very devoted coffee farmer. Name: Bogale Gebre-Yesus Location:…
This is Zewdie
We’re scoring quality Arabica from little-known smallholders in Ethiopia. Like Zewdie. He’d like to say ‘hello’. Name: Zewdie Haile Location: Tega Size of property:…
This is …… (Throughout 2017)
We’re scoring quality Arabica from little-known smallholders in Ethiopia. Like Zewdie and Bogale, there’s many more farmers introducing themselves to you in the months…
This is Asrat (December 2016)
We’re scoring quality Arabica from little-known smallholders in Ethiopia. Like Asrat. He’d like to say ‘hello’. Name: Asrat Haile Location: Tega Size of property: 1 hectare Community…
Moyee Dives Deeper into Direct Trade with ‘Call the Farmer’ Project
For the last three years Moyee has been exploring the back roads of Ethiopia’s coffee highlands to score quality Arabica from little-known smallholders. During…
