Coffee Purchasing Guide
What's brewing beneath your beans? Let's get to the roots of your roast.
There’s more to your coffee than meets the mug! Our Coffee Purchasing Guide highlights brands working to support healthier soil, thriving ecosystems, and the farmers growing your favorite beans.
True pioneers, Heirloom helped bring the first commercially available regeneratively farmed coffee to your cup.
Decaf lovers, rejoice! Holistic Roasters offers the world’s only Demeter Certified Biodynamic decaf.
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Biodynamic farming since 2006? That’s a whole lot of soil-loving experience behind these beans.
One of the first coffee roasters to embrace Regenerative Organic Certification, Groundwork has helped lay a foundation to bring soil-friendly beans to more mugs.
Coffee loves a little shade! When coffee grows beneath a diverse canopy of trees, fallen leaves help feed the soil, roots help prevent erosion, and branches create habitat for birds and other wildlife.
This coffee is for the birds! Grown with bird habitat in mind, Peru Cecanor also supports women coffee growers.
Joel Silva turned his family’s struggling soil into a regenerative success story, and now helps other Peruvian coffee farmers do the same.
Give your coffee grounds the encore they deserve! Instead of sending the rest to a landfill, add your used grounds to your compost to help nourish your houseplants and garden, or use them in an exfoliating homemade coffee scrub!
Better coffee and better opportunities—Buena Vida’s prosperity pricing model puts farmers at the heart of its mission.
GoodSAM works with smallholder farmers in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains to support regenerative growing practices.
- Learn more about coffee cultivation and agroforestry.
- Look for certifications such as Regenerative, Biodynamic, and Organic.
- Labels such as Fair for Life, Fair Trade, Non-GMO, and Certified Naturally Grown can tell you more about sourcing and production standards, but they don’t all measure the same things. Use our Food Labels Guide to make sense of them.
This resource is brought to you by Beckstoffer Vineyards, a proud Partner of Kiss the Ground.
