Origin & Story
Where coffee comes from, and the people and places behind it.
Origin & Story
38 articles
Arabica coffee origin: one hybrid event and two surviving lines
September 25, 2026Arabica is one crossing between two species, and almost every plant grown today comes f...
San Luis Potosí coffee lost half its land and 83% of its crop
September 21, 2026Half the planted area and 83% of the crop went in thirty years, while the national coff...
Hidalgo coffee grows on four sierras and ranks sixth in Mexico
September 17, 2026Hidalgo is Mexico's sixth coffee state, and its crop is split across four separate moun...
Guerrero coffee: 90% of the crop leaves the farm as dried cherry
September 13, 2026Guerrero is Mexico's fifth coffee state, and 90% of what it grows is sold dried whole i...
The Dutch fair trade coffee label began with Mexican farmers
September 9, 2026The label Dutch shoppers still recognise was founded in 1988 on a request from Mexico, ...
Mexican coffee farmers average 54 years old, and 11% are under 35
September 2, 2026An ICO study of 883 growers puts the average Mexican coffee farmer at 54, with only 11%...
Oaxaca coffee: the third largest area, the fourth largest crop
August 29, 2026Oaxaca grows coffee in more municipalities than any other Mexican state and still finis...
Puebla coffee: small plots and the highest yields in Mexico
August 25, 2026Puebla is Mexico's third coffee state by volume, holds no top-three share of the plante...
Veracruz coffee: Mexico's second state and its highest yields
August 21, 2026Veracruz grows about a quarter of Mexico's coffee, out-yields Chiapas per hectare and h...
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