The People Behind the Beans
Nicaragua - Café Ben Linder: Our Roaster, Dean's Beans partnered with the Polus Center to create a café/roasterie in Leon, owned and operated by a prosthetics clinic that gives free artificial limbs and therapy to land mine victims and the poor.
Sumatra - Paman Dean: These beans are grown with the assistance of water buffalo. They provide weed control and organic fertilizer for the coffee fields. Don't laugh! This eco-buffalo project saves farmers time, labor, and money - all of which are extraordinarily precious during the long-term coffee pricing process.
Peru - Restoring the Sacred: Dean's Beans has just begun to work with the Ashaninkas indigenous coffee growers of Pangoa Cooperative around Satipo to reforest their sacred lands, which provide food, medicines, and sacred objects and sites to this tribe. The lands have been severely degraded by illegal logging since the 1970s.