This coffee is from the Santa Rosa region of Guatemala, processed at a cherry mill in Ayarza. It is an anaerobic natural processed coffee made from a blend of Anacafe 14, Bourbon, Catuai, and Pache varieties. The coffee features bright tropical fruit notes of lime, kiwi, and mango. Produced by Arnaldo López, a smallholder farmer who has been involved in coffee production his entire life, cultivating coffee on 12.6 hectares of land in the Ayarza area.
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.
