Green coffee and home roasting supplier Sweet Maria’s has formalized their direct trade buying program, calling it Farm Gate Coffee. Farm Gate prices are at least 50% (but often 100% or more) over Fair Trade prices. Their latest newsletter gives a more thorough explanation.
Even if you don’t roast your own coffee, head over to the Sweet Maria’s web site. I have learned so much there — not only in the coffee library, but also reading the bean reviews and descriptions and the many travelogues that are sprinked throughout the site. It’s a real education!
Revised on November 25, 2020
All in all, I am not a big fan of the name "Farm Gate." I saw the name in the mailing with my order of green coffee and when I started to read it, I honestly thought that they were about to say something bad about coffee somewhere. In the last few decades, "Anything-gate" has been used to suggest a cover-up, lie, or some other bad deal that has gone down….
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