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The Oxcart Coffee – Cafe Imports Latin America office officially opened in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica earlier this year, before the busiest part of the harvest season in that producing country. It was intended as a full-service export-import office where our green-coffee sourcing team in Costa Rica (green-coffee buyer Luis Arocha<\/a> and green-buyer\u2019s associate Francine Ramirez<\/a>, along with Adriana Abarca in logistics and Eduardo Ramirez in sensory analysis) could receive, catalog, roast, cup offer samples, and contract and pay for coffees from the local producers with whom we\u2019ve been working the past many years\u2014but it very quickly became much more than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Augies-Coffee-House.jpg” align=”center” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n Augies Coffee House<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”15px”]<\/p>\n Within weeks Oxcart was a hub for producers as they stopped by with coffee to taste, questions to ask, and conversation to share. Soon after that, it transformed into a joyful meeting place as our customers started making plans to stop by to cup and pre-book lots almost as soon as they arrived, often cupping along with the farmers who grew and processed the lots. It was also an incredible forum for producers from other countries to come and share ideas\u2014an opportunity to make the coffee world a little smaller for us all. Many times the visits extended to the field\u2014literally, as Francine and Luis introduced roaster after roaster to producer after producer, right on their farms and at their micro mills.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/101-001.jpg” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n Resource: Coffee 101<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Duluth-Coffee-St-Paul-Roastery-002.jpg” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n Duluth Coffee Roasters + St. Paul Roastery<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”15px”]<\/p>\n Francine is tremendous at her job as green-buyer\u2019s associate not only because she is passionate and knowledgeable about coffee but also because she\u2019s meticulously organized: Looking back on her notes from the year so far, she realized that from January to May, more than 30 different roasting companies were represented in visits, along with a very special visit from our friends and partners in Carmo de Minas, Brazil: CarmoCoffees. She\u2019s also a great photographer, and so is Luis: If you ever visit Oxcart, you\u2019ll probably be lucky enough to have them capture a photo of you smiling, cupping, maybe even posing with a coffee tree and a producer who\u2019s become a new friend. Here are just a few of the images they captured over first five months of visits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Carmo-Coffees-001.jpg” align=”center” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” disabled=”off” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n CarmoCoffees<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Magda-004-e1564610086928.jpg” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” disabled=”off” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n Cafe Imports Europe<\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Julie-Sourcing-Trip-004-e1564610111119.jpg” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” disabled=”off” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n Resource: Sourcing<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”15px”]<\/p>\n While this year\u2019s season is wrapping up its final days, the next installment of Open Door: Costa Rica will be here before we know it at the Oxcart Coffee office, so now\u2019s a great time to start daydreaming about your trip to San Jos\u00e9 to meet the team, cup some amazing coffees, and see another aspect of the coffee supply stream up close and personal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”https:\/\/cdn3.iconfinder.com\/data\/icons\/transparent-on-dark-grey\/500\/icon-04-512.png” url=”https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oxcartcoffee\/” align=”center” max_width=”50%” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”center” text_font=”Raleway||||||||” text_font_size=”15px”]<\/p>\n Follow Oxcart Coffee on Instagram <\/em>@oxcartcoffee<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Oxcart Coffee – Cafe Imports Latin America office officially opened in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica earlier this year, before the busiest part of the harvest season in that producing country. 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