North Star Collection
Our winter blend draws inspiration from the North Star: grounded, steadfast, and unwavering. Each cup welcomes a moment to reflect, reset, and embrace the path ahead.
5% of sales from this coffee & tumbler will support The Chain Collaborative’s 2025–2026 East Africa Incubator cohort. TCC works with local leaders in coffee growing regions to provide leadership training and access to funding for community-driven projects in key areas like climate change resilience, gender equity, education, and more.
About the Coffee
North Star Blend
Our winter blend, North Star, weaves together two of our favorite washed and natural-process coffees of the season from East Africa and Central America, featuring:
- at the forefront, a washed-process coffee from Habil Olaka and his coffee farm, Yellow Diamond Estate in Kenya, to establish a spicy and complex foundation,
- complimented by a natural-process coffee from producer Claudia Mathies De Rank in El Salvador to contribute a pleasant frutiness to the blend.
Roasted medium light, the result is our North Star Blend: rich & inviting with notes of spiced cider, persimmon, and toffee.
About the Beneficiary
The Chain Collaborative
5% of sales from this coffee & tumbler will support The Chain Collaborative’s 2025–2026 East Africa Incubator cohort.
Through an 18-month Community-Led Development (CLD) Incubator program, TCC build relationships with local leaders in coffee-growing regions, cultivate their project design and management skills, and foster the development of their farming enterprises. Their work allows global communities to combat intergenerational poverty and marginalization in the coffee sector on their own terms, and according to their own visions for change.
For more information, visit thechaincollaborative.org
About the artist
Michael Hoeweler
We partnered with MIchael Hoeweler, a New York-based illustrator specializing in vibrant lifestyle work, to design our custom coffee bag and tumbler for North Star Blend.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Michael spent his childhood drawing dinosaurs, whales, and his favorite video game characters before formally studying painting and art history at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. He continued this pursuit in college, attaining an undergraduate degree in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. After a decade spent establishing his studio practice as an illustrator in New York City, he moved across the Hudson River to Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he currently lives and works.
In addition to being an illustrator, Michael is an educator with the Illustration MFA program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, an LGBTQ+ community advocate with Bloomfield Pride, a cancer survivor, and a gardener.
Learn more about Michael and his work at: michaelhoeweler.com
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