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Day: October 23, 2018

Green Coffee

New Green Buyer Goes To Origin, Takes Picture, Makes First Direct Trade Purchase

A green coffee landscape shot from a hill.
Guest Writer / October 23, 2018

  By Robert Galbraith   SANTA CRUZ, CA— Having recently been promoted to green buyer at a mid-sized West Coast coffee roastery, Desmond James was nervous about his first trip to origin.   “After one of the importers we work with found out I had never been to origin, so they invited me to come on their next buying trip.…

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