Sep 17, 2021
7 min

Canada's Toxic Legacy in Honduras, and What Coffee Buying Has To Do With it.

Canada and the Honduran Coup Semilla operates on the belief that transparency and traceability in coffee sourcing should encompass not...

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Oct 9, 2020
9 min

Who Watches The Watchers? Towards a Politics of Accountability in Specialty Coffee

A few weeks ago on Instagram, I shared some thoughts concerning the common sentiment that many of us have like said and/or heard when...

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Nov 29, 2019
13 min

Producer Spotlight: Ortega-Gomez Family

Today we share with you an in depth interview with Olgar Ortega Bolaños and his son, Esnaider Ortega Gomez. As small coffee producers who...

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Nov 13, 2019
11 min

Knocking on The Door vs. Being Inside The House

If you haven’t read Part 1 or Part 2, please do so! They will be referenced throughout and it will make things easier to understand....

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Oct 15, 2019
6 min

What Good is a Bad Guarantee?

In the last post, we talked a lot about the history of coffee production in Colombia through the lens of San Agustin, Huila, a...

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Sep 11, 2019
8 min

Forget About Juan Valdez

This land has always held something secret, hidden yet in plain view.

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Jul 23, 2019
3 min

The First Chapter

Semilla is just what it’s name suggests — it is a seed. There are big hopes for what Semilla can become, but for today, we start modestly.

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RESOURCES

Semilla offers a compilation of organizations, texts, and ideas intersecting around the subjects of coffee, race, colonialism, and capitalism. This directory will be constantly updated.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

A list of books and articles on a range of topics that are all pertinent to the coffee industry, and to a just comprehension of history.

LOCAL AND NATIONAL NON-PROFIT AND FUNDRAISING INITIATIVES

An ongoing and fluid list of local and national organizations that Semilla actively contributes to and/or hopes others will too. Also present are crowdsourcing initiatives run for or by individuals and communities of colour

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