Cooperative Coffees is a green coffee importing cooperative, committed to building and supporting "Fair and Direct" trade relationships for the benefit of small-scale farmer families, their communities and exporting cooperatives.

Cooperative Coffees’ story began in 1997, when founder Bill Harris – inspired by his encounter with a Guatemalan coffee coop on a Habitat for Humanity delegation – decided to start up a roasting company that would import and roast fairly traded coffee beans from Central America.

A conversation corner about topics connected to coffee and some of the primary challenges facing the industry. We explore issues around farmer livelihoods, healthy soils, maintaining a sustainable supply of great-quality coffees, and truth in trade.

Cooperative Coffees exists to import high-quality, organic green coffee from small-scale farmer organizations to build long-term relationships and foster fair and equitable trading practices. Our goal is to make coffee-growing a sustainable and beneficial endeavor for …

Inspired with the idea of creating a “First-of-its-Kind Fair Trade Coffee Roaster Coop” – Bill embarks upon another road-trip. This time he scouts out the Midwest and eastern USA and identifies the seven original roaster members: Bongo Java, Cafe Campesino, Dean’s Beans, Heine Bros Coffee, Larry’s Beans, Los Armadillos (now Third ...

44 North Coffee – Deer Isle, ME, USA: Alternative Grounds – Toronto, ON, Canada : Amavida Coffee Roasters – Santa Rosa Beach, FL, USA: Bean North Coffee Roasting – Whitehorse, YT, Canada

Founded in 1967, the cooperative has a long history of producing some of the best coffee exported under the famed “Huehuetenango” mark. The members of Rio Azul all live no more than a 1.5 hour walk to the wet mill in Jacaltenango.

Just Coffee Cooperative is a worker-owned, small batch coffee roaster located in Madison, WI. We don’t follow your prototypical business model but rather, we are dedicated to creating and expanding a model of trade that’s based on transparency, equality, human dignity, and environmental sustainability.

Deborah oversees Coop Coffees’ communications and is also responsible for administration and accounting for the Canadian office. She is excited to be a part of the organic fair trade world, and to be drinking great coffee!

A Rough Guide to Coffee’s Epic-Journey Prior to 1000 AD. Galla tribe in Ethiopia realize that they get an energy high from eating ground up coffee cherry.