Holiday Blend Collection
Certified Organic with a medium light roast, our Holiday Blend is a celebration of the people who make every cup possible, from farmers and roasters to baristas in our cafes, and the loved ones you share it with at home.
5% of sales from tour Holiday Blend collection will go to our partners at Kayon Mountain, a coffee farm in Guji, Ethiopia. Funds will be used for the construction of three classrooms at the local Taro Elementary School.
About the Coffee
Organic Holiday Blend
Holiday Blend is built around a natural-process coffee from Kayon Mountain, a farm located in the Guji Highlands of Ethiopia. Natural, or dry processed coffees are not pulped after harvesting, which means the coffee fruit is left to dry on the beans fully intact, resulting in intense fruit-forward flavors.
We then add a second Ethiopian coffee: a floral and citrusy washed-process lot from Suke Quto, which is also located in the Guji growing region.
The final addition to this year’s Holiday Blend is from a cooperative in Honduras called CODECH Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Desarrollo de Concepción Huista), a name that may be familiar to long time drinkers of Equator coffee. The milk chocolate, and dried fruit flavors in their coffee knits the blend together, adding nuanced layers of complexity.
All of Holiday Blend’s component coffees are certified organic.
About the Beneficiary
Kayon Mountain & Taro Elementary School
Located in the Guji growing region of Ethiopia, Kayon Mountain Estate owner Ismael Hassen Aredo provides training for 140 nearby smallholder farmers, helps finance social initiative projects such as the construction of schools, and plans to build a bridge across the Sawana River to make the walk to school for the children of the community more safe.
This bold, natural-process coffee serves as the foundation of our Holiday Blend.
5% of sales from this coffee will go to our partners at Kayon Mountain; funds will be used for the construction of three classrooms at the local Taro Elementary School.
About the Artist
Jack Hudson
We partnered with Jack Hudson, a talented illustrator and director who lives and works in the small market town of Frome in Somerset, UK, to design this year's custom coffee bag, ceramic mug, and instant coffee box for our Holiday Blend campaign:
"The challenge for this particular design was to include so many different aspects of the journey of the coffee bean from planting right through to brewing in an interesting way but also find a graphic device which links this whole process together. We chose to use festive string lights around the packaging, so people could follow the process directly and get a feel for the detail and joy that goes into production. My favourite section is probably the sides of the design where the perspective shifts and we see a mix of characters at different scales working around the conveyors."
Represented by SNYDER, learn more about Jack and his work on her website: www.jack-hudson.com
Drinking good coffee
leads to good things.