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When we first started discussing opening our own roastery, probably in 2014 or so, we wanted to make sustainability one of the main pillars our business stood on. However, the fact is that coffee is grown in mostly developing nations, far away from the UK. It is impossible to have coffee here without it having travelled a long way by air or sea. This has a huge impact on the environment and is something we bear in mind when choosing importers to work with. While not much can be done about the miles green coffee has to travel, there are many choices along the way that impact on the long-term sustainability of speciality coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, sustainability is not a stand-alone concept. It has been proven time and again that community-based programs<\/span> empowering disenfranchised groups<\/span><\/a> have a long-term positive impact and are much more likely to make lasting change. Social programs such as women growers’ co-operatives and partnerships, which are centered on the sharing of knowledge, have been shown to result in brilliant outcomes for coffee growers and the quality of their coffee. We look for importers that work with coffee-growing communities to help break down barriers to entering the world market and using sustainable agricultural and processing methods.<\/span><\/p>\n We understand that we are nowhere near meeting all of our goals on sustainability. We are on a never-ending mission to find better packaging that is also affordable. It’s very frustrating that recyclable or compostable packaging is so much more expensive and often not actually managed properly by local councils, but we’ll keep looking! Over the past three years we have made some strides towards our goals and review our sustainability plan regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, top priority for us is quality. We only buy speciality grade green coffee which is more expensive but – as a rule – comes with a host of benefits. Namely, the quality is excellent, the growers have been paid fairly (massively reducing the risk of forced\/child labour) and the farming techniques are sustainable because the growers are not under pressure to produce volume over quality.<\/span><\/p>\n We have worked with our main coffee importer –<\/span> Cafe Imports<\/span><\/a> – for many years, including in Australia. You can check out resources on their website but there are many things we really like about them as a company. They use mainly solar power for their own energy needs and encourage staff to bike to work or carpool. They have direct relationships with growers and co-ops and conduct lots of region visits to keep these relationships going, try new coffees and support growers to learn new, more sustainable farming practices. Check out the<\/span> Environment<\/span><\/a> section on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The highest quality coffee is most susceptible to our changing climate so it’s more important than ever that growers are supported to use sustainable agricultural practices which may produce a lower yield of better quality coffee. As speciality coffee is mostly grown at higher altitudes, growers are having to move further up the mountains they farm to find the right temperatures, resulting in less land for each grower. This obviously has an impact on the cost of high quality green coffee and on the ability of growers to make a living, especially if consumers make the choice to buy cheaper coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n The importers we work with, and many others around the world, support growers to react to our changing climate in an effort to protect the speciality coffee industry & reduce its’ impact on the environment, encouraging practices such as:<\/span><\/p>\n We are not sustainability experts and we’re learning as we go. 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