Chiapas Coffee Cooperative

Committed to sourcing sustainably grown coffees and to partnering closely with the farmers who grow it our roasters know that by working together cooperatively they can more readily impact and multiply the positive effects of their selective coffee.

Chiapas coffee cooperative. Local growers were seeking ways to sell more coffee and decided to ask for help at the jesuit mission in bachajón a small town in the southern mexican state of chiapas. Just coffee cooperative is a worker owned coffee roaster dedicated to creating and expanding a model of trade based on transparency human dignity and environmental sustainability we build long term relationships with small scale coffee growers to bring you a truly incredible cup of coffee. The coffee is processed at union el triunfo in independencia a municipality of la concordia chiapas. Each member averages one hectare of coffee and produces about 400 kilos annually.

Growing altitude for this lot is between 900 and 1850 masl with 85 of the plots well above 1 200masl and varieties include typica and bourbon. The producers cesmach was founded in 1994 by smallholder farmers seeking more transparent access. 608 204 9011 join our newsletter facebook. Organic coffee from chiapas mexico is much more than great coffee.

The mut vitz was established in 1997 with 200 coffee producers which in 1999 held the first sale and export of around 35 tons to europe and the u s. The cooperative union maya vinic is comprised of some 500 coffee farming families from los altos in chiapas mexico. Due to extremely high cost of shipping coffee overseas schools for chiapas no longer fills international orders for coffee. The cooperative producers union maya vinic is comprised of some 500 coffee farming families located in 38 highland communities in the municipalities of chenalhó pantelhó and chalchihuitán in chiapas mexico.

Cooperative coffees is comprised of 23 community based coffee roasters spanning the continent from the yukon to the panhandle of florida. Sixteen years later the coffee cooperative has grown from 25 families in the salvador urbina community to more than 100 across four communities including a second group in chiapas and one each. Each member has on average one hectare of coffee and produces about 400 kilos annually.