On Monday, April 17th, we reached out with a Get Response e-mail blast to about 900 people asking them to learn about us and, if possible, help our growers improve their facilities.
 
We provided this link to our GoFundMe page:
 
Help the Growers Improve Your Morning Coffee, organized by S Ron Covey
 
We are raising money to help our growers of Family Coffee improve their coffee bean drying facilities. With our supporters’ help, the growers can make two improvements:

• Add concrete flooring to their solar dryers. The concrete flooring will help reduce moisture in the solar dryers and thus improve the quality of our coffee.
• Replace the plastic windows in the greenhouse-like drying structures. These windows are weakening and have been nearly destroyed by the local weather.

Several years ago, we raised the money needed to erect solar dryers. At the time, this was a recent innovation in coffee production. Before the advent of solar dryers, the normal way to dry coffee cherries (beans) was to spread them out on the ground or a concrete surface to dry in the sun. When the rain came, workers used wood 2x4s to scoop up the coffee and store it until it could again be laid out to dry. Combining the solar drying structures and concrete flooring improves drying efficiency in two ways.
Caminando por la Paz Paz (visit www.fathertomscaminando.org) has been selling excellent Honduran coffee through Father Tom’s Family Coffee for more than five years. The purpose of our coffee project has been to provide funding for Caminando's educational projects. Working with Honduran coffee growers to produce the best possible coffee, we assist them in their efforts to improve its quality at every step in the process.
We are grateful for the help you have offered in the past and hope you can help again as we continue to improve our coffee production process.

On Saturday, November 12th, the board and friends of Father Tom’s Mission (the nonprofit that supports Caminando por la Paz in Guatemala) met at Copan Trade, the company that roasts Family Coffee.

Copan Trade, in Tom Ball, Texas, receives the coffee beans from the beneficio, the plant in Honduras that dries the beans Family Coffee has purchased from the growers, prepares them for export, and ships them to Copan Trade for roasting.

We took this trip to give our board members and other friends helping sell our coffee a better understanding of all aspects of coffee production. We hope this greater understanding of the process will help them to increase our market share by sharing that knowledge with our customers.

Coffee Cupping. A major portion of the visit was learning about the various elements related to coffee tasting. Many in the group did not fully realize that coffee is graded in a system very similar to wine tasting. We were provided with charts to help us recognize various flavors which may be present—they may be caused by the soil, local vegetation in the coffee fields, etc. Our coffee has traditionally been graded as premium, but now we understand much more about why and how this occurs consistently.

Roasting. In addition to learning how coffee is graded and all the various elements of that process, we also took a tour of the facility. Naturally the main attraction was the actual coffee roaster. There we learned about how various styles of coffee require variations of roasting time and other conditions.
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The participants declared the visit a success and even spoke of arranging a similar visit for interested parties in the local area.

Perhaps you have one of these in the closet?

If you do it would brew as good a cup of Family Coffee as any other pot or brewing method.

Visit our internet store at: https://www.familycoffee.org.

Leaarn about the Education Project we support at:
www.caminandogua.org.

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Roxanne is in the Guatemalan equivalent of Middle School. Her continuing education will be secure when you purchase Family Coffee.  

https://www.familycoffee.org
sellls the coffee that supports her education.



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If you want to help you can use the Buy Now button on the website to purchase this excellent coffee  (All the profit goe to support the education project.)

Family Coffee is professionally ground by Copan Trade in Tom Ball Texas. -  However; in the old days this was the way to

Today many like to use those small electric grinders.  (Then again if you buy ground coffee from Family Coffee it will be fresh  because we only have it roasted in small batches;)
 
Learn more about coffee at:
:  https://www.familycoffee.org

Also get to know our supported program at:
Https://www.caminandogua.org

Family Coffee supports Camianado Por La Paz in Guatemala.

When  donations reach a good level we are able to take our neighbors and the kids in tutoring on a short trip.  One of the reasons is to provide the kids with a break from the concrete jungle where they live.
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​Visit the program at:  https://caminandogua.org

 Your donation not only helps us provide a short trip for the kids and neighbors, it also will go a long way to supporting our on-going Educational and Community Service Projects.