PROJECT FIRST

We are a project first coffee roastery. We like to see coffee as more than just a “seed-to-cup” journey, transcending sensorality and holding accountability in the way we source and purchase coffee. Ensuring that every actor along the supply chain is fairly compensated even beyond the farmgate, working with partners who we trust, sharing our passion for sustainability.

We focus on high quality coffee produced by smaller scale producers and/or farmers, who perhaps do not have the same level of market access as the more prominent producers. Trying to reappropriate the word specialty away from the gate keepers of the industry. We source coffees that are clean, with high flavour fidelity and less intense processing methods, focussing on the cherries grown by the farmers we work with – opposed to highly processed coffees.

We are working to ensure long term relationships with the coffee growers, small holders, farmers, producers – whoever we work with. To guarantee a stable economic relationship – regardless of crop quality year to year. Coffee buyers and roasters are typically in a position of power in these “relationships”, often creating contracts that put the buyer at low risk keeping the producers vulnerable. We at von&vonnie are committing to buy the coffee from the producers we work with year on year and not abusing contracts that put the buyer in a position of power.