“Ethical sourcing is the top priority for us when buying beans. We make sure we have traceability all the way back to the farm and ensuring a premium price is paid for the coffee we buy. We also try to buy coffee from farmers in emerging origins, for example, this year we’ve bought coffee from Indonesia, Timor-Leste and most recently Guerrero. Guerrero is an impoverished state in Mexico which is the third-largest area under poppy cultivation in the world. Buying coffee at high prices will hopefully help farmers out of being bound to cartels and growing poppies for heroin production.”