This coffee is from the Rotutu Cooperative in Letefoho, East Timor (Timor-Leste). It is a natural processed coffee made with Typica and Timor Hybrid varieties grown organically beneath native shade trees at high altitude. The coffee is produced by 16 Rotutu farmers in partnership with Karst Organics, with carefully fermented and slowly dried beans resulting in a vibrant, fruit-forward profile with tropical notes.
NewGround Coffee was founded in 2018 in Oxford by Joel Grates and Dickon Morris with a social mission at its core: providing work and training opportunities for ex offenders. The roastery is B Corp certified and pays growers four times the Fairtrade standard. Head roaster James learned his craft at Redemption Roasters while in prison and now runs the Loring S15 Falcon day to day. The original café opened in 2019 in the same Headington building as the roastery, and a second location, a café and wine bar on Ship Street in central Oxford, followed in 2023. The inspiration for the business traces back to the Zukuka Bora project in Uganda, where coffee farming transformed lives in communities affected by civil war.
