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Haitian Mountain Bleu Blue Coffee, Haitian Art

Story of a Home Coffee Roaster

Singing Rooster's Molly and Christophe met the delightful Corey O'Hara at the Clinton Foundation's coffee summit in 2011, Port au Prince.

Corey is the energy behind Viagusta.com and is a self-described food policy wonk where the buy local food movement is his passion.

Another passion? Coffee.

Corey roasts his own coffee with a bit of an unconventional technique -- a hybrid of the cast iron skillet and cookie sheet method.

According to this roasting genius, "I preheat the cast iron skillet in the oven for 30 minutes to get it up to the right temperature, then pour in the beans and roast, stirring every minute or two. It seems to roast them more evenly than just stirring in the skillet.

The key to good home-roasted coffee is to start with high-quality beans, and the best single-origin green beans that I’ve tried come from Haiti. Obviously there’s also a second level of pleasure that comes from knowing your money is supporting very poor farmers in the remotest parts of one of the world’s poorest countries. These beans came from the Artibonite region, and I look forward to repeating this experiment when Molly gets in her next shipment from Thiotte."

Along with supporting Singing Rooster, Corey is interviewing Nepalese coffee farmers to determine if the high value for their coffee is reaching the smallest farmers.

Corey O'Hara's home roating Haitian Coffee

Corey O'Hara's home roasting method:
cast iron skillet and cookie sheet.

His favorite bean? Haitian
Thanks Corey for the shout-out -- the Rooster & Haitian coffee farmers appreciate it.

100% of Singing Rooster's efforts go BACK to Haiti; we import coffee from Haiti, sell it & provide direct assistance to rural coffee farming communities through interrelated support for the sake of self-sustainability, dignity and economic autonomy.

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Singing Rooster - a registered 501 (c)3 nonprofit - offers a direct buyer relationship & on-the ground assistance to coffee farming communities in Haiti for the sake of self-sustainability, dignity & economic autonomy. We meet then EXCEED principles of fair trade.

We help cultivate and process high quality, gourmet Haitian coffee. Then we buy/export tons of green Haitian coffee beans and create new markets for it: roasted coffee, green coffee beans for home or commercial roasters, fundraising with coffee, and wholesale coffee to commercial roasters, cafes, and stores. This enables a stable outlet for our farmer partners and provides partial funding for our interrelated support -- we return 100% of the proceeds of coffee sales back to the farmers and their communities.