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#53: Reforesting, Finding Your People & The Hidden Cost of Coffee Production w/ Mark from Finca Rosenheim

Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

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The Dangers of Green Coffee

In producing countries, especially like the structure in Colombia, and I'm sure in Peru, green coffee is a currency. And there are places where you can just directly change it for money. It's much more like somebody breaking into your store and taking, you know, cash out of your, out of your cash register. There's very little traceability. You just someone brings in money. No questions asked. Even if they just take a kilo, that could be a day's wages for somebody. So when our coffee goes from the Erica to the port of Kayao, that moment is so dangerous.

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