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Fair Trade Organic Shade-Grown coffee from the Las Diosas cooperative in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua Medium Roast Coffee

Cafe Campesino

$17.95
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In the department of Estelí, just east of Managua, the land is mostly devoted to tobacco — and the tobacco industry is mostly controlled by men. It's not the easiest place to build a women-led coffee cooperative. But in 1996, a group of women set out to do exactly that. They called themselves La Central Cooperativa Las Diosas – The Goddesses – and they built something genuinely different. Today, Las Diosas is a network of four smaller cooperatives, each one managed by its own Directiva (a female Board of Directors), with 250 women members between them. They grow organic, fair trade-certified Bourbon and Caturra varietals at altitudes between 95 and 1200 meters – and they've channeled their cooperative income into the things that matter most for their members' lives: women's education, housing, and health. It hasn't been an easy road. Leaf rust has hit their region hard in recent years, slashing harvests by up to 60% for some members. Las Diosas responded the way they always have – with collective action. They launched a revolving credit fund that's helped members start vegetable gardens, raise chickens, and build new income streams while their coffee plants recover. In the cup, you'll find Las Diosas's coffee shows up the way the cooperative does: balanced, thoughtful, and quietly distinctive. A medium body, light acidity, and sweet herbal and cocoa flavors that reward slow mornings.
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