Whole Bean Coffee - La Union - Huehuetengango, Guatemala - 12 oz

Roast: A Full City roast is a medium-dark roast which leads to a rich, balanced flavor profile. 

Cooperative: The Union was formed in 1998 and currently has over 160 members, almost half of whom are women, which is an impressive figure considering Guatemala's male-dominated coffee sector. This situation is a result of large-scale migration, mainly by men, to the U.S., as jobs are hard to find in Huehuetenango. As a result, many families are run by female heads of household. The cooperative is very structured with a well-developed business model, several full-time paid positions, and various international export contracts. Their sales are in the hundreds of thousands of pounds per year with part of the crop being organic certified (10% in 2021). Their mission is to promote and foster the social development of small coffee farmers, through projects launched for education, training, production, processing, and marketing of coffee.