Originally the weavers were growing coffee and they wanted us to help sell it. It was a difficult scenario because in the next town over (Sna Lucas Toliman) the Catholic Church had a massive coffee project that sent coffee to churches in Minnesota. Through our intervention, that parish started to buy coffee from the weavers committee, which we then bought from the parish as a pass-through. The problem was that other than the weavers, no one else from outside the parish was able to sell their coffee to the the Catholic Church - so it created unintended resentments. One year the parish did not have enough coffee to meet our order, so we met the shortfall with organic coffee from the women's coop in Huehue.

It was about that time that the weavers stopped selling coffee to the parish in San Lucas (I don't remember the reasons - maybe not worth the hassle). By that time, we made the decision to continue the coffee business with the women's co-op as well as continue our other connections with the weavers committee. It was then that I inserted a second coffee line from Honduras. So our single-focus project grew quickly to three distinct groups and locations.

One year some of the farmers from Honduras got to visit Guatemala and connect both with the weavers and with the women's co-op. Really powerful connections. One year before I joined the group some of the weavers were able to come to Wisconsin and visit Farmer to Farmer members and an Ojibwe reservation near us. Again, powerful connections. But given the stupid ways that the USA prevents people from Central America from traveling here, sending people from there to here is next to impossible. However, we do have yearly trips both to Guatemala and Honduras. Sometimes it is just me going to Honduras.