Brazil Project: Renovating La Casa de Idê A key part of our ethos as a business is investing back into the communities that produce our coffee beans, sometimes this looks like helping with equipment that helps them in their coffee production, other times it involves partnering with them by helping
Whenever we are in East Africa, we’re not only checking coffee quality and sorting the next year’s crop, we are looking for opportunities to invest in communities and improve lives. We believe in the power of business to do good, and the ‘full circle’ whereby we not only trade directly,
Introduction by Ian Mount Kilimanjaro lies on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, and when our friend Josh came to EA with his plan to go back to Loitokitok, Kenya and invest in tree nurseries and tree planting it was a no-brainer for us to support him. Kenya has suffered
The News Shot is our “readers digest”. A one page update on what we get up to throughout the year in a pdf format. Below are the archives ranging from 2009 – 2018. Click on one of the compendiums below to see the journey we’ve taken with our farmers. Issues
Written by Jack Fresh from the trip to the Machare African coffee Farm and the surrounding smallholders in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro I am sitting, reflecting on the privilege it is to now be part of the EA journey, and to realise how great it is to have been
Autumn 2019 Weigh more value for small producers in Tanzania You can’t do your job properly without the right tools. We continue to believe in our farmers, and continue to invest in our relationships with them in order to improve their livelihoods, and improve your coffee. These new weighing scales
Summer 2019 Beautiful scenes, beautiful coffee Previous Next This is Jacutinga, ethically sourced coffee from a small coffee growing community high in the hills of southern Minas Gerais, Brazil. We’ve been back to buy the crop this year and meet with Osmar and his family. The more they understand speciality
We have partnered with a local primary school to help with their feeding project in Kigulya, Uganda. The international lead on the project says: ❛❛ “As a result of fundraising at school and the generous donation from Ethical Addictions we are able to provide the resources to farm a large
February 2018 Improving Coffee, Improving Lives Our Kilimanjaro coffees are exceptional high grown Arabicas and cup consistently high year after year. This year’s trip was a reflective one after 10 years in Tanzania, and we were able to map the increased quantity and quality of the crop, especially from the
BBC radio interview today about the latest trip to Tanzania and Ian becoming a tribal chief. To promote this interview, they took pictures and videos that Ian had recorded on location in Tanzania and turned it into this short video that was shared online. Video Transcript This is the first
