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Costa Rica, Part Two

March 11, 2010

Day two of my awesome origin trip in Costa Rica began with a visit to Coffee Source Inc. coffee exporters.  Arnoldo Leiva, longtime friend of Portland Roasting Coffee, picked us up and brought us to his office.  He is the General Manager at Coffee Source, owned by the Vargas family.  The Vargas family also owns coffee [...]
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Walk for Water Needs You!

March 8, 2010

The Walk for Water and Benefit Concert are rounding the bend. We hope you have marked your calendars for the two-day fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, March 21 and Monday, March 22. Sign up at our site today and corral some friends to form a relay team. You can test your strength (how much water can [...]
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How to Buy Coffee in Colombia

March 3, 2010

I already referred to this topic in the past but not in detail. I would like to write in a very simple way about the current process of grading and pricing the coffee in Colombia right after the dry parchment leaves the farm. In Colombia, the coffee is mostly traded in dry parchment with average moisture [...]
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Blogging on Blogging

March 1, 2010

When someone at work emails me to tell me “Hey you’re famous!” I could be forgiven for wanting to know why? Somebody, somewhere I’ve never met blogged about me on a blog I’ve never heard of until now! What’s more they said really nice things about me – Really!!- “Highy informative and engaging” they wrote [...]
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Small World

February 26, 2010

I was reminded recently of how everything and everyone is connected. I was in a meeting with a prospective customer that is looking to buy a new espresso machine.  For various reasons we decided that something from La Marzocco would be a great fit for his new coffee shop.  I told him that I would do some [...]
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Australia Sojourn

February 23, 2010

I recently arrived home from a two week holiday in Western Australia, it was wonderful to say the least and I had the opportunity to experience things I had only dreamt about.   A completely eye opening — and very important aspect– was the coffee culture of Australia, so different from what we are accustomed to in [...]
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Walk for Water Registration Ready

February 19, 2010

In just over a month, our second annual Walk for Water will commence at the World Trade Center in downtown Portland. We hope you will be joining us as we gather walkers to take a picturesque path around the Willamette in a 3.1-mile route that approximates the plight of people around the world who suffer [...]
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Costa Rica Travelogue

February 17, 2010

I have been back from my amazing trip to Costa Rica for three weeks and I am overdue in sharing some of my experiences. After Mark, Chris and I landed and made it through immigration at the San Jose airport we met our driver, Favio, and headed straight up into the hills to tour La Minita [...]
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Fun Pumps Installed in Kenya

February 10, 2010

Notes from the road from Mark Stell, managing partner at Portland Roasting: The proceeds from last year’s inaugural Walk for Water are being put to use this week as Mark travels to Kenya to see the site locations for water pumps being constructed by Water for All, the beneficiary of our event. The Fun Pump, a [...]
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Making a World of Difference through Music

February 8, 2010

Come one, come all!! The line-up has been set and we are working on fine-tuning the details of the benefit concert happening March 22nd at the Aladdin Theatre. The show will be an all-ages event starting at 6pm. We encourage everyone to come out and celebrate while raising funds to build water pumps in Tanzanian villages! We are [...]
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