Field Trips

In coffee, we talk about family a lot. It is one of those words that gets attached to nearly every farm we visit, to nearly every story we write. So often, in fact, that it risks losing its shape. I am...

In January, Priscilla and I, Hriday, travelled to the coffee regions of Karnataka and Kerala. For DRWakefield, it was our first visit to India since the pandemic, and for me personally, a return to origin...

Henry just got back from a trip to Honduras, and it was a great opportunity to observe some of the recent big changes that are ongoing in the country.   Access to finance remains the biggest pressure...

Mantiqueira de Minas is like folklore at DRWakefield. The stories I had been told conjured pictures of high altitudes, rolling hills, native shade trees, toucans, smallholders and the holy Yellow Bourbon....

In July I travelled to Brazil with Jamie to visit our partners SMC, in Guaxupe, and farms. This was my first experience of coffee farms in Brazil, and what I saw challenged my preconceptions. Much of the...

Water. It was flowing everywhere we went, rare for an origin trip, especially when coffee has been harvested and needs to be dried. Moisture was ever-present, both in the coffee and in the air, and managing...