At Tiny Footprint Coffee, we believe that environmental and social justice go hand in hand. It is because of this that since our founding we have been dedicated to sourcing from Women Coffee Producers across the world, consistently and proudly sold and represented their incredible beans, and done our best to tell their stories.
Learn more here about the inspiring women behind these exceptional carbon negative coffees, and how each cup you enjoy of their Tiny Footprint Beans positively impacts their lives and communities, as well as the planet.
To experience the delicious and beautifully nuanced coffees all these women coffee producers have to offer and positively impact their lives and communities, look to our Women Producers Sampler and enjoy today.
And as always with Tiny Footprint Coffee, you’ll be helping the environment with every bag. Support our women coffee producers now and let your cup overflow with good karma.
Colombia Café Femenino
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Our single origin Colombian Café Femenino is grown, processed, and comes to us as the final product of a community of women coffee farmers based in the COSURCA Cooperative of Cauca - the women of the Café Femenino Colombia Program. Since 2004, this program has functioned as an arm of the greater Café Femenino®, an organization and movement empowering women coffee farmers, originating in Peru and now spanning nine countries.
The production and purchase of the Colombian Café Femenino directly impacts and is a product of these women coffee farmers and their community in Cauca. Through years of work, they have overcome several social and economic barriers, including the ingrained social stigma of leaving their homes as women. Today, they serve as a thriving bolster to their community and economy. With 438 women farmers actively championed by both their husbands and local governments, the women of the Café Femenino Colombia Program now obtain the title to the lands on which they farm, earn an extra premium for their high-quality coffee beans, and serve in leadership roles as they enact programs, trainings, and initiatives that further benefit their community.
Thanks to these women and the Café Femenino® founders before them, when you choose the Colombian Café Femenino, you’re choosing more than a specialty coffee. You’re choosing to stand with women coffee farmers fighting for the credit they deserve and the voice they need to empower themselves and their communities. And as always, with your purchase at Tiny Footprint Coffee, you're working towards a sustainable environment in which they may continue to grow.
Sumatra Takengon Gayo | Takengon Select
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This coffee comes from the highest altitude family-run farms within two cooperatives—Ketiera and Koperasi Kopi Gayo Organic (KKGO)—located in the Takengon highlands of the northern Ache province on the island of Sumatra. In effect, it is double select coffee: we are selecting the coffees we like from select high-altitude lots produced by the two cooperatives, both of whom are committed to improving cup quality and living conditions in their region.
The farms and cooperatives are managed mainly by women from the Gayoneese ethnic group. Many of the men in their community were killed or exiled during the Free Ache Movement, actively resisting Indonesian government control, until as recently as 2005. The movement can trace its roots to the brutal 30 year Ache War of Gayoneese resistance to Dutch colonialism in the late 1800’s. These inspiring and skilled women use the premium Fair Trade prices they receive to address needs in their communities including health clinics and schools, empowered and effecting change with each cup you enjoy.
Guatemala Women Producers ASPROCDEGUA Co-op
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This coffee comes straight from women-owned and/or managed farms within the Asociación de Productores de Café Diferenciados y Especiales de Guatemala cooperative, located across multiple municipalities in the departments of Huehuetenango and San Marcos. First, it is the best tasting lot from Guatemala we’ve cupped this season. Second, (and depending on your worldview, maybe most importantly) it is another coffee that goes beyond Fair Trade in scope and price, directly empowering our partners at source. In this case, the premiums support technical assistance and social programs focused on food security, nutrition and education for the women (and their communities) who bring this coffee to your cup.
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Women Coffee Producers Sampler
Click here to shop our Women Coffee Producers Sampler.
To experience the delicious and beautifully nuanced coffees all these women coffee producers have to offer and positively impact their lives and communities, look to our Women Producers Sampler and enjoy today.
And as always with Tiny Footprint Coffee, you’ll be helping the environment with every bag. Support our women coffee producers now and let your cup overflow with good karma.