Sustainability
Partners Coffee is built on the strength of our lasting relationships at origin. We source coffee from around the world from people we know and trust—to produce beautiful coffee, and be the greatest stewards of the land they grow upon.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
We focus on relationships.
We aspire to purchase from the same producers and communities year after year and to work directly with producers when possible. Our goal is to promote mutual, long term success through communication and shared growth.
Maintaining strong relationships at origin allows Partners to offer blends with a consistent flavor profile while celebrating talented producers through their seasonally-rotating single origin menu.
We believe in comprehensive purchasing.
Even the best and most successful coffee farms produce a spectrum of quality. We take this into consideration and strategize large, meaningful purchases—where we buy microlots, we also seek dependable volume coffees.
Through the carefully planned purchasing of non-commodity priced coffee, Partners builds secure supply chains which enable farmers to invest in their local communities.
We view economic sustainability as a critical foundation for environmental sustainability.
During periods of low farmgate profitability—which are frequent in coffee production—farmers are incentivized to switch to more intensive farming methods or to abandon important farm upkeep. Either can have a detrimental environmental impact and exacerbate issues associated with climate change, affecting entire communities.
We trust our producing partners to be the best stewards of the land.
We seek to build relationships with producers who share our values. We trust them to know and to care for their land just as we trust their expertise in farming and processing.
sustainability is core to who we are
OUR PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
We recognize our responsibility to help build a sustainable supply chain. We work directly with our producing partners, making large, planned and meaningful purchases that provide predictability— ensuring that our purchases of specialty-grade coffee allow our partners the financial security to improve upon their operations and quality of life year after year.
Through these purchases, we’re able to continue vertically-integrated sourcing projects that provide long-term sustainability. But what does that really look like in practice?
One of our proudest examples is El Ramo: a sourcing project that focuses on the bi-annual buying of stunning coffees from a single municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia.
Every Colombian coffee on our menu from this region has been discovered through curating components for El Ramo— and the most special coffees are kept isolated and sold on their own on our Single Origin menu.
Another relationship we’re extremely proud of is with Los Volcanes Coffee. Los Volcanes purchases and exports coffee grown by thousands of individual farmers across Guatemala.
They also operate an experimental farm, Finca La Esperanza, in Antigua Guatemala. The purpose of the farm is to experiment with agricultural and processing techniques, study what happens, and share the findings with their member farmers. In doing so, they absorb the risk inherent to experimentation.
Their first project was to divide La Esperanza into four quadrants with different farming practices, including different approaches to conventional and organic farming. What they discovered was that the organic quadrant eventually outperformed the rest of the farm by a factor of four.
In light of that finding, they have focused their research on methods that emphasize organic and circular inputs—with a goal of increasing yields and minimizing risk.
One of our proudest examples is El Ramo: a sourcing project that focuses on the bi-annual buying of stunning coffees from a single municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia.
Every Colombian coffee on our menu from this region has been discovered through curating components for El Ramo— and the most special coffees are kept isolated and sold on their own on our Single Origin menu.
Another relationship we’re extremely proud of is with Los Volcanes Coffee. Los Volcanes purchases and exports coffee grown by thousands of individual farmers across Guatemala.
They also operate an experimental farm, Finca La Esperanza, in Antigua Guatemala. The purpose of the farm is to experiment with agricultural and processing techniques, study what happens, and share the findings with their member farmers. In doing so, they absorb the risk inherent to experimentation.
Their first project was to divide La Esperanza into four quadrants with different farming practices, including different approaches to conventional and organic farming. What they discovered was that the organic quadrant eventually outperformed the rest of the farm by a factor of four.
In light of that finding, they have focused their research on methods that emphasize organic and circular inputs—with a goal of increasing yields and minimizing risk.
THE MAINSTAY MAP
Our mainstay coffees have their component greens sourced from all around the world. View the origins below and learn about what each coffee contains.
Brazil
Components: Brooklyn, Bedford
COLOMBIA
Components: Bedford, Brooklyn, Flatiron, Ramo
Ethiopia
Components: Bedford
PERU
Components: Ghost Town
EXPLORE OUR
ORIGIN PARTNERS
Brazil
Pereira Family: Sertão, Santa Lúcia, Isidro Pereira, Irmãs Pereira
Ethiopia
Bishan Dimo Washing Station
Suke Quto Washing Station
Burundi
Gahahe Central Washing Station
Greenco
Colombia
Rubén Dario Goméz: El Faldón
Echavarría Family: Chiroso Honey
Pergamino
Cuatro Vientos
Honduras
Roger Antonio Domínguez Márquez: San Francisco, Las Flores, La Cueva
Beneficio San Vicente
Pereira Family: Sertão, Santa Lúcia, Isidro Pereira, Irmãs Pereira
Bishan Dimo Washing Station
Suke Quto Washing Station
Gahahe Central Washing Station
Greenco
Rubén Dario Goméz: El Faldón
Echavarría Family: Chiroso Honey
Pergamino
Cuatro Vientos
Roger Antonio Domínguez Márquez: San Francisco, Las Flores, La Cueva
Beneficio San Vicente
Our Pledge
By pledging to purchase non-commodity priced coffee, we are helping build a secure supply chain while simultaneously allowing our growing partners to invest in their businesses and local communities. Our relationships and annual purchasing of coffees strengthen the security and building of community projects.
