Thursday, June 19, 2025

Kungahara women: their accomplishments and challenges

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Today we visited the Kungahara women's group and their parent cooperative, Bwishaza. The main objective is to cup the coffees and select...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

"CVA-Gate": Unnecessary Takeover and Destructive to Our Community

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June 1, 2025 As I sat in the CQI Luncheon at the Brown Convention Center in Houston on April 26, the room seemed to be held in a palpable ...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Houston, TEXAS Warehouse Visits

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  Last week on April 29, Ruth Ann was excited and honored at the same time to visit   two   of Houston's coffee warehouses. Only after t...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Artisan's new leaf and bean logo!

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We're excited to announce a new "leaf and bean" logo for Artisan Coffee Imports! After 16 years, we are retiring our original ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Voices of our Producers: Interviews with Women Producers in Rwanda

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Interviewing Olive NYIRAGAHIGIRWA (center), Bridget VUGUZIGA, translator, (right) In 2024 we conducted our 4th round of ‘sample group” inter...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Sabbath Roasters' Generous Gesture - 'Cause That's What Coffee People Do!

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Ruth Ann withTrevor Graham, Evan Kamrath  of Sabbath Coffee Roasters (l to r) Ruth Ann was cupping at COCAGI cooperative's cupping lab i...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Artisan Team Grows with 4 (and a half) New Members!

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May 7, 2024 NEWS FLASH: The Artisan Coffee Imports Team is growing!  We're happy to announce the new consultants on Artisans growing tea...