Calendar Coffee Podcast

Hanna is the Senior Communications Advisor at World Coffee Research, and in this podcast we learn how this organisation is helping safeguard the future of coffee. If you're a fan of our Teamwork Espresso, you might be aware that €0.50 cent for every Kilogram of this coffee sold is donated to World Coffee Research. We hope this episode provides more insight into the projects this supports.   
 

In this episode, we’re joined by Nadine Rasch who is the founder of the importing company Primavera.  We‘ve been buying Guatemalan coffee through Nadine and her team since 2018 and for many roasters in the industry, Primavera is their go-to for sourcing high quality lots from Guatemala. In this conversation, we talk about the harvest in 2024, and learn more about how coffee is produced in the country. We also discuss some of the challenges facing coffee farmers in Guatemala today. 

In this episode, we are joined by Matt Smith who is the CEO of Hometree, an environmental charity based on the West Coast of Ireland. For the last 10 years Hometree have been establishing and conserving native woodland in Ireland and since 2019, we’ve bought and planted trees with Matt and the team in order to offset our carbon emissions. We talk about how the charity started and why their work is so important in addressing the climate crisis. We also discuss  carbon credits and what the future of our partnership with Hometree might look like.

In this episode, we’re joined by Keith White, who is our Sustainability Manager at Calendar. In this episode, we talk about what his role involves. We then unpack our 2023 transparency report, discussing the key findings and lay out some of our goals moving forward.

In this episode, we’re joined by the renowned Norwegian roaster Tim Wendleboe. We draw on his experience buying coffee and building relationships with the producers he works with. We discuss some of the intricacies around his sourcing model, and chat through some of the advantages and challenges of working this way. He even shares some insights as to what he’s got planned for the future.

In this podcast we attempt to untangle some of the topics to do with sustainability within the coffee industry. Our first guest is Rory Gowan from Caravela Coffee. In this episode, we will discuss how coffee is typically traded, Direct Trade, and how we can ensure better prices for producers using a new metric called the Minimum Prosperity Price.