
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…
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…
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…
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….
If you are at all interested in environmental certifications, then you probably already know: UTZ and Rainforest Alliance are merging. Instead of The Big…
Has it really been a year since we published our Impact Report and threw an epic party for our fans??? Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!…
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…
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,…
The very short stories of the smallholder farmers growing your premium FairChain beans. Meet Zewde (not to be confused with Zewdie, of course). Name:…
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…
The typical smallholder coffee grower in Ethiopia cares for some 700 coffee trees, each one dotted with beautiful red cherries. Beautiful as they are,…
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…
This weekend Moyee officially kicked off our ‘Call the Farmer’ smallholder training program at Tega & Tula, our partner plantation in Ethiopia. The program…
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…
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 is the last of the ‘4 A’s’ that accompanied us up into the Ethiopian highlands to help us help our FairChain farmers optimise…
Altaye is another one of our promising young collaborators from Jimma University. Because all four students travelling with us through Kaffa have names that…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
A few weeks back we visited Bogale, one of our smallholders and a prominent figure in his local community. This week we paid him…
This is Mr. Bihonegn Adelaw, a 55-year smallholder on an incredibly beautiful farm near the Tega & Telu plantation in the Ethiopian highlands. A…
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 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:…
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:…
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…
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…
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…