Climate Change
Keeping Young Farmers on the Land
One of the biggest problems for our farmers around the world is how to keep young farmers interested and engaged? Wit...
A Week of Coffee & Change
A Look Inside Dean's Beans
You might already know this, but we're not a coffee roaster. (I can hear it now. Gasp! Wh...
Reclaiming Sumatra Project Takes Off
It is always so exciting when, after months of planning, budgeting, visits (and riding the occasional elephant and ...
Pangoa Does it Again!
Hard work pays off...
We've got a lot of good news out of Peru to share with you! It's news that demonstrates REAL p...
The Latest Victim of Climate Change?
Pretty soon climate change could be leaving a bad taste in your mouth!
As temperatures steadily rise in the coffee l...
Haste Makes Waste: Sun-Grown Coffee
Haste Makes Waste: Sun-Grown Coffee
We get asked often to explain the difference between sun-grown coffee and shade-...
If you can't grow coffee, grow poppies.
Mexican coffee farmers are forced to ask themselves this hard question every day: if climate change destroyed your li...
Every Day is Earth Day at Dean's Beans...for REAL!
It might be cliche, but we really do treat every day as if it were Earth Day, a national day of awareness and focus o...
Reforestation, Gender Equity & Guinea Pigs
Each visit to our farmer partners is an amazing experience. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always both a learnin...
How One Small Nicaraguan Community Fights Climate Change
How One Small Community Fights Climate Change
The last three years were the hottest on record worldwide. Climate cha...
Will Coffee Be Extinct by 2080?! Climate Change and the Impact on Coffee
Climate Change and Its Effects on Coffee
(excerpted from our newest in the Javatrekker Series on Climate Change, comi...
2015 Year At A Glance
2015 started with a new website that was so poorly designed that we actually lost ground for the first time in twenty...