Sweetwater Morning Monthly Florida Coffee Zine Blog

Dear Friends of Sweetwater Organic Coffee, It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news that our good friend and longtime colleague Jim Caskey passed away unexpectedly on Sunday May 12, 2019. Jim was the first person to join the Sweetwater cr ...

What is Fair Trade? Fair trade has become quite a buzz word. But what does it really mean? The basic idea behind Fair Trade is to help level the playing field for the people who produce our products, such as coffee, chocolate, sugar, bananas, ...

Supporting Women in Coffee At Sweetwater Organic Coffee, we are proud of our strong fair trade relationships that help create economic and social development in our partners’ communities. Learn more about one of our partners since 2016, ANEI. ...

St. Pete-based artist Eva Avenue is living in Europe and documenting her coffee travels.  She is currently reporting on the specialty coffee culture in Ireland and Northern Ireland. In a series of articles, Eva will look at the local coffee cult ...

GAINESVILLE, FL - Sweetwater Organic Coffee joins an international network of coffee trainers as it launches coffee brewing and barista classes from its newly opened Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Premier Training Campus in Gainesville, Fla.Baris ...

You could start off 2019 denying yourself something delicious in an effort to trim your waistline or live more healthily.  Or.. you could just listen to more music.St. Pete Artist Eva Avenue curated a coffee playlist for Sweetwater before e ...

While working on this issue of the Sweetwater Morning Monthly Florida Coffee Zine, I peeled a small tangerine-orange and popped 3 pieces into my mouth separately to study what I was tasting and left the rest to throw out later. Tragic."Oranges used t ...

Thanksgiving dinner’s all finished. Grandpa belched out a good one and now they’re like, “Let’s get ready for pies and coffee!”Dessert makes sense but why coffee?Well, coffee has caffeine in it and that’s real important for aiding digestion. It speed ...

Recently, Eva Avenue sat down for a quick chat with Paul Fiore, owner of Fiore’s Sweet Cup in Gainesville, FL, and Fiore’s Frosty Jack’s in Alachua.I met Paul Fiore on a trip to Americus, GA, for an anniversary party with Cafe Campesino, the roastery ...

We’re happy to share with you the sweet letter we received from Sarah Gerard, author of the recent national literary hit Sunshine State.Dear Sweetwater,This morning I woke up at 6am, which is an hour earlier than I usually wake up, and before the sun ...

Sweetwater General Manager  Brian Condra went down to hang with one of the coffee world’s most revered fair traders, Esperanza Dionisia Castillo, who helped bring the C.A.C. Pangoa coffee co-op back to life from the ravages o ...

Join us this weekend in Gainesville for the second annual  Organic Food & Farming Summit organized by Florida Organic Growers. Designed to bring together foodies, farmers, educators, home gardeners and more, this July 27-28 summi ...