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Meet the People Behind Your Morning Coffee

Through our solidarity group initiative, we’re all one big family

Visiting the family of longtime coffee co-op member Don Francisco Alvarado (in yellow). Author’s photo.

I recently led a trip to Honduras to visit coffee farmers and their families. There were six of us riding in the backs of pick-up trucks up and down mountain roads to visit the eleven farming families of the coffee co-op. Each family welcomed us…