Christmas Gift?
Talking about a win/win proposition!
Win #1—A bag of our coffee makes a great gift!
Win #2—Your purchase makes a difference in the life of Nicaraguan young person (it sends them to a Young Life Camp for a day. We will be having two camps during the Christmas break).
Win #3—You have introduced someone to a really great coffee, and also to a really important ministry in Nicaragua.
Give a bag of coffee….
Send a kid to camp!
The Coffee Business...an editorial
Unquestionably, coffee has a checkered history, replete with graft, corruption, and outrageous marketing claims. Even today, Fair Trade coffee has often been employed as a social-conscious marketing tool, rather than as an honest description of a just wage paid to coffee producers. Some have cut their coffee with chicory, others with an inferior grade of Robusta. Some have shaved costs by selling a 12 oz bag instead of the full pound.
At our farm in the mountains of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, we are sticking to the basics. We produce a quality bean and sell only the beans we produce (we don’t buy from neighboring farms and sell them as our own). We send you a full 16 oz bag in a foil-lined bag to maintain its quality. We seek to pay our coffee workers better than a market wage, and in addition, we provide them a house (that they own), access to education, and a medical clinic nearby. We have provided scholarships to the children of our workers to send them to the university. In fact one of our lead coffee technicians went to the university in just this way.
We keep our product simple because we have a clear vision. We want to help our ministry to at-risk Nicaraguan youth become as self-sufficient as possible, not always dependent on the largess of North American donors. And so we grow a great bean, toast it to perfection, and deliver it fresh to our customers knowing that when they drink our coffee, they are directly supporting the ministry of Young Life Nicaragua.
We seek to be transparent in all we do; if you are interested, take a look at our page The Numbers and see for yourself the cost breakdown of a pound of coffee.
www.VidaJovenCoffee.com Launched!
Hooray! Let’s sell coffee and send some kids to camp!
Wake-up to Vida Joven Coffee
No kidding, there are times when I look forward to going to sleep, just so I can wake up in the morning to a freshly ground, hot cup of Vida Joven Coffee. While telling another coffee roaster this, he said to me, “yep, I’d wake up in the morning for a cup of this!”
We believe you will too! Be careful, or you might find yourself getting up in the middle of the night for more than just a trip to the bathroom.
Sweet dreams.
Daniel
Vida Joven Fall camp update
Coming soon, but in the meantime you can check out the Vida Joven Nicaragua website.
Our Coffee
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Beyond Beans Dark Roast (1 lb.)
$12.00Our signature, premium roasted coffee directly from Vida Joven in Nicaragua. This coffee is produced from a Caturra plant grown at 4509 feet above sea level. While other coffee grown...
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Beyond Beans Light Roast (1 lb.)
$12.00A lighter roast, combining our signature roasted bean with a lightly roasted bean. In spanish we call this Los Dos, signifying a mixture of both dark and light roasted beans,...
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Beyond Beans Bulk Dark Roasted Coffee (10 lbs.)
$70.00Same great bean, same great coffee, but packaged and priced for the institutional need. Whether you are a church, a Young Life Camp, a Coffee Shop or another large consumer...
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Beyond Beans Bulk Light Roasted Coffee (10 lbs.)
$70.00Same great bean, same great coffee, but packaged and priced for the institutional need. Whether you are a church, a Young Life Camp, a Coffee Shop or another large consumer...
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Beyond Beans Green Beans (10 lbs.)
$55.00For the purest in heart, we offer our beans in their unroasted, “green” state. With these beans, you can roast them, satisfying your own taste profile. We sell them in...