Sweet Maria's Coffee

This is a recording from a presentation we hosted at our warehouse in June 2019. Tom had recently returned from a trip to Africa and wanted to share his thoughts on the global coffee market and small holder farmers in Burundi. Watch the video to see the slide presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWWkAVSxLvg

Okay, this is a "podcast" with zero edits, just a voice recording basically. It's a December early morning in the origin of coffee origins, which is Kafa, Ethiopia, near the town of Bonga. I talk slow as molasses about various experiences and thoughts from the last couple weeks in Ethiopia. Maybe this is super boring. It's not like I am really into these monologues, but when I am jetlagged and inspired (odd combination), my resistance to rambling on is particularly low.

The inventor or the Bullet R1 coffee roaster, Jonas Lillie visited Sweet Maria's for our Bullet meet up event. He was also in town to show Tom and Julio some details about the internals of these awesome machines. One day, we hit the record button during a conversation/repair session in hopes of it turning into an informative podcast episode and Youtube video.

Part 2 of 2 - Thompson and Alistair Sequeira talk about coffee and lotsa other stuff.

Part 1 of talk about the coffee supply chain among other topics

Tom chats with Kenya coffee experts about the Kenyan coffee trade (Part 2 of 2)

Tom chats with Kenya coffee experts about the Kenyan coffee trade (Part 1 of 2)

Coffee and Microorganisms: Los Palomos Colombia

An informative conversation with Daniel Shewmaker of MTC coffee traders, who sources coffee in Indonesia. He also grew up in Sulawesi and speaks Bahasa! While in Timor and Flores we were having good conversations about Indonesia coffee processing and quality, and the way it relates (or doesn't) to current coffee trade trends. -Tom

A conversation with John Karuru - Kenyan Agronomist

Kenya Coffee with Mette-Marie Hansen

Coffee Cultivation in Colombia PART 2

Coffee Cultivation in Colombia PART 1

Morning Sounds from my Coffee Travels

Ferment in Colombia with Leo