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Rick In Nicaragua

Nicaragua is one of our most important coffee producing origins. Our experts find it hard to beat for smoothness and balance so it plays a key role in many different Taylors coffee blends – it’s one of the coffees in our best-selling
Lazy Sunday blend that makes it so incredibly moreish.

We’ve been buying coffee from farmers in this country for many many years – well before the rest of the world caught on to how good it is! As a result, we treasure the long-standing relationships we have with our suppliers over there. And there’s no better way to maintain that than by visiting in person.

Buyer Rick Tingley recently visited several coffee farms in Nicaragua, partly to see how the crop is coming along, but also to make sure that living and working conditions on the farm meet the high standards we set. It was a great opportunity to see first-hand how the social funding we provide has improved lives in the farming communities, such as the childcare centre we helped to build at one of the farms.

Another key part of Rick’s trip was visiting the cooperative groups that supply coffee for our Fairtrade Organic blend. “We buy all the coffee one of these cooperatives produces,” says Rick, “so they’re naturally very keen to meet anyone from Taylors. Some of the farmers, arriving in their open neck shirts, cowboy hats and boots, had ridden over 45km on horseback to get there, so it was a pleasure to meet and talk with them.”