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Peaberry Coffee
Every year, hundreds of millions of pounds of coffee are grown around the world. It’s a number which continues to increase, along with demand for beans. As the industry has grown, so too have its...
Instant Coffee and Keto
Coffee and its health benefit have been well-documented, on this site and beyond. One thing that we always find exciting is to see how diet approaches incorporate and leverage coffee’s energy boosting and appetite suppressing...
Viennese Coffee Houses
There are many different ways that roasters seek to source and trade for the best quality beans and compensate producers fairly. From Fair Trade certification to Certified Organic and others, organizations have formed around the...
Irish Coffee: A History and a Recipe
As long as there has been good coffee there have been people trying to put new things in it. While we often discourage such adding too many flavors that distract from the coffee itself, we...
Coffee and Weight Loss
Whether it’s part of your morning routine or an afternoon pick-me-up, you already know that coffee has the ability to alter the way you feel and your ability to perform. When harnessed correctly, coffee can...
The One Office Perk You MUST Splurge On
If you own a company, or manage an office, you know that there are times to cut cost and times to spend on the important stuff. Now, we may bit biased, but we think there’s...
Why does coffee off-gas?
There are many different ways that roasters seek to source and trade for the best quality beans and compensate producers fairly. From Fair Trade certification to Certified Organic and others, organizations have formed around the...
Coffee Cooperatives Explained
Coffee takes many routes from farm to cup. In the complex international coffee trade, beans are bought and sold as commodities and specialty products, through direct sales or via several layers of middlemen. Coffee cooperatives...
Why Cans are the Best Packaging for Coffee
There are many different ways that roasters seek to source and trade for the best quality beans and compensate producers fairly. From Fair Trade certification to Certified Organic and others, organizations have formed around the...
Regenerative Agriculture
There are many different ways that roasters seek to source and trade for the best quality beans and compensate producers fairly. From Fair Trade certification to Certified Organic and others, organizations have formed around the...
Coffee is a Commodity
Coffee is big business. With caffeine being the world’s favorite drug, and coffee being the world’s favorite way of getting it, entire global supply chains and markets have developed with the sole purpose of connecting...
The First Organic Coffee Co. - Est. 1980
Cafe Altura formed around a shared belief in the transformative and healing power of Organic and Regenerative agriculture. In 1980 Chris Shepherd traveled to Chiapas, Mexico in search of coffee grown without the use of harmful chemicals in methods that cared for both people and the environment. Today, Cafe Altura is available from Los Angeles to New York. We are based in Ventura, California where we roast our coffee on vintage roasters and continue to promote organic agriculture through conscious commerce. Read the Cafe Altura story here.