Cultivated, processed, and roasted by strong women in Guatemala, Chica Bean delivers fresh coffee within 1 week of roasting (Shipments go out every Tuesday)! Chica Bean is a Guatemalan social enterprise that’s changing the way the world does coffee and bringing you a dang good brew along the way. Through roasting in origin, eliminating middlemen, providing educational opportunities, and offering j
ust prices, Chica Bean catalyzes the empowering potential of specialty coffee for women throughout the value chain. Chica Bean brings you the purest form of direct-trade coffee:
--> We purchase our parchment coffee directly from the female smallholder producers who cultivate and process it. We don't just pay them *just* Farm Gate prices, we also increase their access to technology and education through trainings.
--> We do all the inter-Guatemalan transport to get the coffee from the producers in Jalapa to our facilities just outside of Antigua.
--> We store and dry mill, ensuring ideal conditions.
--> And of course, we roast the seeds to perfection, again at the hand of another woman (the only female Roast Master we know of in Guatemala) finishing up with the packaging.
--> We do all the commercialization, followed by the processing for exporting and importing, and following-up the logistics so that our coffee will be delivered to any door in the USA within 5 days of being roasted. Chica Bean defies industry colonialist traditions by roasting in origin and then exporting to consumers, ensuring value is more evenly distributed throughout consuming and producing countries. With this model, Chica Bean pays producers 50% more than the international market, yielding a 2.5x income increase for farmers and a 1.3x income increase for their community.
