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House Blend Espresso
Organic
Mexico / Peru
Storage & shelf life
MARCOS VASQUEZ GUTIERREZ
FARMER FROM SAN JUAN DIEGO X-OYEP, CHIAPAS, MEXICO
I get a better price for organic coffee.
"I share a house with my parents and nine children," says Marcos Vasquez Gutierrez. "Two of my adult sons also work for our cooperative Maya Vinic, which makes me proud." The farmer sells coffee, honey and some macadamia nuts. "But there are a lot of mouths to feed, so I also grow maize, beans and bananas on my 3.5 hectares of land, and keep chickens," he explains. "I used to grow citrus fruits too. But for the past three years, we've really been feeling the effects of climate change. It's just too hot and dry for these plants now."
Background
We want fairer coffee
People in Europe drink more than 30 billion cups of coffee a year. Millions of family farmers grow the coffee to meet this huge demand. Far too many of these families live in abject poverty because the price of coffee is too low.
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