Updates

Alice just spent two weeks with the team in Timor-Leste; here’s what she discovered.

Make the most of your home-grown olives - from quick and easy to high effort, high reward!

Olives to Oil is back 18-19 June! Drop off your locally harvested olives and we will press them into oil for you to enjoy at home.

Meet Joana, the 25-year-old environmental entrepreneur who's on a mission to replant forests and end hunger in Timor-Leste.

From an app that tracks trees to coffee grind soaps, find out how we have landed at the forefront of The New Standard in coffee.

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.

Over the Easter weekend, cyclonic rains, landslides and flash flooding wreaked havoc across Timor-Leste: 45 dead, 10,000 displaced and around 4500 dwellings destroyed. With your help we’ve made a huge contribution to communities across the country.

In May, Alice was amongst forty diverse Australians invited by the Governor-General to the Global Foundations Canberra Roundtable to discuss Australia’s identity and longer-term strategy in a global context. This is her address.

By now you may know that for every kilo of coffee roasted we plant a tree, but you might have wondered how we get from coffee to trees and why it’s so important. Introducing WithOneSeed, a tree planting program with two objectives: reducing poverty and fighting climate change.

Dina Sequeira is one dynamic woman! Hailing from Dili, Dina is the local food entrepreneur (aka zero waste superstar) behind our first preserving hub in Timor-Leste, where she works to ensure local communities have food year-round. This is no easy task when intense wet and dry seasons mean that fresh produce is either abundant or scarce.

The Christmas period is synonymous with overspending, overindulgence and overconsumption. But it’s not all doom and gloom! Use this simple guide to ensure your celebrations don’t cost the planet (plus you’ll have some fun!)

Humanity suffered tremendously in 2020, but what about the planet? As the year comes to a close, we delved into what restrictions in public movement, closed borders, reduced transport and halted non-essential services meant for the planet and its climate.

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