Education
Sustainability, Transparent Trade, Decaf
Sustainability
Artisan categorizes our sustainability efforts into three categories:
Economic
Social
Environmental
We understand our role as a small importer as a powerful catalyst. We are not a multi-national non-profit with a team focused on securing donations, nor are we a multi-national for-profit roaster nor a certification agency. We partner with all of the above. Importantly, we parter with producer organizations on the ground who are doing good work in sustainability and innovating on the frontier.
Transparent Trade
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Call it "direct trade", "farm direct" or "relationship coffee", Artisan helps craft roasters connect with farmers who are passionate about coffee and creating partnerships. Offering detailed information and feedback both directions - from origin to consuming country and back - Artisan works to ensure the coffee trade benefits both sides, and creates sustainability.
Try us! Ask the questions you thought no one would answer like, "exactly how much did the farmer get paid?" or "What is the farmer's cost of production?"
Previous clients include United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Decaf Coffee
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Artisan is proud of our tradition of offering specialty roasters great tasting, green decaffeinted coffee.
While we don’t offer decaffeinated green coffee at this time, we continue to educate specialty coffee professionals about the facts of decaffeination. Bottom line: decaf can be part of your brand that emphasizes taste and quality!
There are 4 decaffeination processes:
Water-based solvent
Super-critical CO2 solvent
Methylene-chloride solvent
Ethyl Acetate solvent
