Grumpy Goat Coffee Offers Sumatra Coffee Beans

Grumpy Goat Coffee is proud to offer single origin, fully traceable Sumatra coffee beans.

At the 2016 Africa Fine Coffee Association (AFCA) Conference in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, AFCA and Twin hosted the Gender and Coffee Summit, a special series of discussions where coffee producers and suppliers could touch on issues within the industry and work on curbing them.

It’s a lesser known battle, but a battle nonetheless. Many western producers are unaware of the disparity between gender and coffee suppliers. For example, female farmers account for 70% of agricultural labor in East Africa yet they only access 15% of income and only 20% own land.

To fight the incongruence of the coffee culture, programs are sprouting up all over the world to support women and give producers the opportunity to become distributors.

Now, Grumpy Goat Coffee is proud to contribute to this industry effort to help farmers. Our single origin Sumatra coffee from La Bodega is produced by farmers in the Women Coffee Producer Program.

Grumpy Goat WP Sumatra

According to La Bodega,

“There are a total of 282 producers that contributed coffee to this specific lot, all of whom are women. These women either own, or manage a farm of an average area of 1.5 hectares. The Item Reje Gayo cooperative works with this group of women producers, helping to educate in terms of production practices, and overseeing the application of a premium that was included in the purchase of this coffee.”

So, what’s the premium and where is it going? At the village meeting, the majority vote chose to use the premium to purchase new tools for their craft. The premiums will be used to purchase essential items such as, shovels, hoes, saws, and shears. This program, and others like it, are integral to the future of a sustainable coffee industry.

You want to know what makes supporting programs like the Women Coffee Producer Program even better? We’re benefiting from some truly stellar product! The program alone moved us, but it was the coffee that kept us.
This Sumatra coffee is truly in a league of it’s own. It’s tasting notes include a combination of berry, mango, roasted carrots and red peppers. The coffee retains a soft, sweet and creamy texture with intense acidity.

At Grumpy Goat Coffee, it is our mission to offer our customers incredible tasting coffee from great sources. Cafe Imports, the brains behind the Women Coffee Producer Program says it best,

We believe there is a synergetic relationship between coffee, community, and progress: It can take an entire community to progress in producing coffee, and coffee can create progress for a community.

It takes production to progress and it’s fueled by coffee!