For the conscious consumer, buying local products is a way to shorten that distance between us and what we eat or drink, and maybe even learn more about how it was produced by talking to the people who made it. But what about something like coffee, which doesn’t grow anywhere near those of us living in the continental United States? Do you know where your coffee comes from? And if you do know what country it comes from, maybe from the bag or canister you bought your beans in, do you know how it was grown? Or who grew it? Or how it transforms from a berry on a branch to the brown roasted “beans” you grind for your cup of Joe?

This episode features Dakota Graff, Director of Coffee at Onyx Coffee Lab; Bartholomew Jones, founder of CxffeeBlack; and Anna Canning, a coffee industry veteran who walks us through the many labels you might find on your bag of coffee.

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