Higher Grounds Trading Company

Roasting 100% Fair Trade and Organic Handcrafted Coffees

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• Equipment
• Music

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We've created relationships with small, mostly-indigenous farming cooperatives who are exceptionally knowledgeable about coffee farming and take great pride in caring for their coffee from the soil to exportation. Their incredible farming skills paired with our passion for small-batch, drum roasting provides you with a handcrafted cup of joe that is second to none! “No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.” - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)