Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
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? With few other opportunities in their rural areas, young people...
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! What?! No!) Yes, it's true - we are...
Reclaiming Sumatra Project Takes Off
It is always so exciting when, after months of planning, budgeting, visits (and riding the occasional elephant and wrangling a python or two) a new project gets real. I...
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 progress with our coop partners at Pangoa....
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 lands, coffee production has also been impacted. In places like...
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-grown coffee? What’s the big deal?! Well as it turns out: A LOT!...
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 livelihood, what would you do to feed your family? With the world...
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 on the environment. Every decision we...
Reforestation, Gender Equity & Guinea Pigs
Each visit to our farmer partners is an amazing experience. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always both a learning experience and a chance to go deeper into our quest to...
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 change is real and it is here. I see the terrible impacts...
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, coming soon!) Climate change is finally starting to receive the attention it...
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-two years! Sorry about that, folks, but we spent...