Sitting within our HQ, Corner Store Cafe aims to provide an outstanding experience for customers, staff, and volunteers while delivering on its values of sustainability and supporting the local community.
Check out our new menu here. In January, we took some time to re-vitalise our cafe space and welcomed back an old team member in a new capacity as Cafe Manager. Rachel is a Pastry Chef with a wealth of...
I often sit and contemplate these communities as I drink my morning coffee. I think of the friendly farmers, their families, and the laughing children. I think about their struggle and the incredible amount of work that goes into a single harvest. How will the changing climate affect future yields? What will the coffee market look like in the next ten or so years?
Our model was pretty backward as far as the global coffee trade goes: pay 100% to coffee farmers upfront and be in the red before you've even got the fire burning in the coffee roaster. I can't tell you the number of times I heard, "But that's not how buying coffee works," when we explained it to people with far more experience than us. But that was the point.
As another challenging year draws to a close, we wanted to reflect and share some of our progress, impacts and good news stories from 2021 because, now more than ever, we all need some good news!
Coffee Operations Director by day, musician and basketballer by night! A self-taught coffee roaster, Jake’s attention to detail and desire to create amazing coffee has seen him take out both bronze and silver medals in the Australia and New Zealand Golden Bean Coffee Roasting Competition. But where did his journey with coffee begin?
We’re excited to announce that in Timor-Leste, construction of our flagship Dili hub is well underway. Once complete, it will act as the country's first coffee roastery, food preservery, cafe and live-in training centre.
