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Meet our partners: ANEI

1st Mar 2023

We first heard of ANEI through a recommendation from New Zealand's fair trade pioneers "Trade Aid". In 2014 we traveled together in Sumatra with one of Trade Aid's members, and our good friend, Justin Purser. We were looking to partner with a co-op i ...

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cooperative, organic, farmer partner, fair trade, colombia, anei

Women 's History Month: An interview With COMSA's Miriam Beté Perez

25th Mar 2022

Posted by Matt Earley

In 2018 a few of us had a chance to go to the mountains of Honduras and visit one of COMSA's pioneering coffee farmers-- Miriam Beté Perez. Her farm was one of the most beautiful well-run operations that we have seen in Central America. Miriam is not ...

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coffee farmer, international women's day, cooperative, fair trade, organic, honduras

The Small Business Buzz

7th May 2021

Posted by Eva Avenue

Small business is a term we hear a lot, but what is a small business and what does that really mean?This week is Small Business Week and we’ll look at what makes a small business, how they help the economy and how you can support them. Small Business ...

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small business, small business week, small biz, fair trade, coffee biz, coffee, organic coffee

Coffee College

12th Mar 2016

Posted by Joe Ergle

In order to better serve our customers, and thereby our farmers, a few of us here at Sweetwater have embarked on a path of higher education in the coffee industry. Coffee college, so to speak.The curriculum is called "Pathways," and it's sanction ...

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organic, arabica, coffee, cafe, co-op, coop, cooperative, campesino, farmer, union, spp, flo, roast, artisan, roaster, local, gainesville, florida, fair trade, shade grown, single origin, small farm

Sweetwater Organic Coffee participates in the Taiwan International Tea, Coffee & Wine Expo 2015!

30th Nov 2015

Posted by Tripp Pomeroy

That’s right… Taiwan! Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to travel to Taipei to work with our distributor and his outstanding team of Sweetwater fair trade organic coffee aficionados there to introduce our coffee and business model to the Tai ...

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taiwan, Worldgate, Enterprise Florida, fair trade, organic, coffee

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Meet our partners: ANEI

Women 's History Month: An interview With COMSA's Miriam Beté Perez

The Small Business Buzz

Coffee College

Sweetwater Organic Coffee participates in the Taiwan International Tea, Coffee & Wine Expo 2015!