At Origin

Ever visited a coffee farm? We do it all the time and we are happy to take our customers along. In addition to our regular trips to origin to visit suppliers, we periodically organize customer trips to producing countries: producer farms, wet mills, dry mills, exporters, and the villages and homes of the farmers themselves. The farmers meet the people who will ultimately buy and roast their beans. We have found this to be an invaluable experience for everyone involved.

A hand holding coffee at four stages side by side: ripe red and yellow cherries still on a sprig with a leaf, pale dried beans, grey-green unroasted beans, and dark roasted beans.

Colombia, 2026

Latest trip

Through Caldas and Antioquia, from cherry reception to drying beds to the cupping table.

Finca Laderas del Tapias, Neira, Caldas
Reception of specialty coffee cherries at 1,600 metres elevation.
Trilladora La Bonita, Amagá, Antioquia
Dry mill and cupping lab of Integra Trading.
The Jamaica drying station, Manizales, Caldas
Drying of specialty coffee and microlots with exporter Invercafe Cerritos, including their cupping lab.
Hacienda Las Brisas, Los Palomos, Antioquia
Grupo Oro Molido's wet mill and eco lodge, with their agronomist walking the group through a harvest forecast.

The coffees this trip produced are already arriving: look for the microlots marked New on the offer list.

See the microlots

Colombia, 2026

Our own photographs from the June trip: the farms, the mills and the drying stations behind the microlots now landing in Montreal.

Workers in gloves sorting a channel of freshly picked red and orange coffee cherries at a wet mill

A coffee branch heavy with ripe red cherries among dark green leaves

A cream coloured sack printed Specialty Coffee, Laderas del Tapias, with a red flower mark

An agronomist in a pale blue Oro Molido shirt examining unripe green cherries on a branch

Steep Colombian hillsides planted in dense rows of coffee under a bright sky

The trip group riding in the back of an open green Jeep on a farm track

A picker in a red shirt dropping cherries into a bucket at the tree

From the trip archive

Snapshots, not stock photography. Taken on our own trips over the years.

Two pickers harvesting red coffee cherries between rows of trees

A visitor standing with a picker holding a basket of fresh cherries

Customer trip group under the arch in Antigua with a volcano behind

Group photo in front of the FEDECOCAGUA cooperative building

Trip group inside the Cumbres del Poas cooperative office in Costa Rica

Group standing inside a working coffee processing plant

A hillside planted with coffee under taller shade trees

A large group of farmers and visitors gathered outdoors at a farm

Customer trips to date

Costa Rica 2019
Guatemala and El Salvador 2018
Guatemala and El Salvador 2017
Costa Rica 2016
Guatemala and El Salvador 2015

Join the next one

If you would like to join one of our upcoming trips, contact the office in Montreal. It is just as important for you to be able to ensure quality to your customers as it is for us to ensure quality to you.

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