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Sumatra Ketiara

Sumatra Ketiara

Gimme Coffee

About This Coffee

This coffee comes from the Kopepi Ketiara Cooperative in Aceh Tengah region of Sumatra. Ketiara began exporting coffee in 2013 and has 1502 members across 19 different villages, with the majority being women. Led by chairwoman Ms. Rahmah, the cooperative is known for leadership in coffee quality and prioritizing women's empowerment, education, and land ownership. This has established a stable market for cooperative members, often yielding three times the average price in an otherwise volatile, male-dominated market. The coffee is both Fairtrade and Organic certified.

Origin

Panta Musara, Aceh Tengah (Indonesia)

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Gimme Coffee

Gimme! Coffee was founded on April 8, 2000, by Kevin Cuddeback in Ithaca, New York, helping to shape the specialty coffee culture of the Finger Lakes region from its earliest days. In July 2022 the company completed a transition to a worker owned cooperative, giving the people who roast, brew, and serve the coffee a direct stake in the business. The roastery operates Probat drum style roasters at its Ithaca facility, producing coffees sourced through direct trade relationships with producers around the world. Cuddeback stepped down as CEO in early 2020, and the cooperative structure formalized the collaborative ethos that had defined the company for two decades. Today Gimme! serves its community from locations in Ithaca and Trumansburg, carrying forward the same commitment to quality and transparency that launched it over twenty years ago.

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