Brazil, Donas Do Cafe, Sul de Minas
Milk chocolate ~ pear drops ~ praline
This coffee is a temporary stand in for our Cafe Feminino which is currently out of stock until the end of September. Donas do Cafe embodies the same female led ethos.
The Cooperative
Donas do Café supports women with post-harvest processing, crop management,
agronomy or business management and ensures that they get the pay and recognition that they deserve. Selected via the Especialissimo program, this means all Donas Do Café is speciality grade, and complies with the Geracoes protocol – a 3rd party verified way of producing coffee sustainably, with an aspirational lean to encourage greater impact rather than just tick boxes. Inclusion runs through all projects within the cooperative.
The Farm - Contributing Family - Dolivo
Helena Bachiao Dolivo is a formidable force on her family’s farm. As third generation producers, they inherited a portion of her father-in-laws farm. This reduced the size from 160 hectares to around 65, increasing the pressure on the business elements
to make the farm profitable. Her husband, Lenny, is an agronomist, and this has been continued with her son Lucas and they both work independently as well as looking after the coffee in the field. Changing weather can cause a number of issues, not least flowering out of season, which Lucas has been dealing with by removing the buds before they properly form. This he sees as saving the energy for the cherries and so not stressing the trees too much.
The Farm - Contributing Family - Betti
Jair Betti was 10 years old when his father bought some land to try coffee. An immigrant family 2 generations removed from Sicily he was the first in the Santana de Caldas area to plant it, but already had a small history of working on coffee farms
himself. Starting with 4ha the journey was tough, not least because as pioneers in the area, there were no trained workers to help with the harvest. Fast forward to today and the farm has grown to 10 hectares, located on the hillside overlooking the family properties, and Jairs children Jeferson and Josiel live in neighbouring houses with their families. The lack of labour is still a huge issue, and so the entire family gets together to pick coffee when it’s required, and if they are lucky a neighbour will help. Cleissimara and Jessica are the wives of the two brothers, and run the patios and post-harvest processing.
Why Wogan?
Ethical
We work closely with farms worldwide to make sure that coffee farmers are paid a fair price, through Fairtrade and our own Direct Trade certifications. Working hard with coffee farmers to improve their lives and the lives of their families.
Sustainable
We maintain long term relationships with our carefully selected coffee farms, to provide the stability they need to plan for the future. The added bonus? Coffee that improves with every single crop, as their farming practices and equipment improves.
LDPE4 Recyclable
Helping you to do your bit. Our bags are LDPE4 recyclable, meaning they can be recycled in supermarkets. Alternatively, you can check with your Local Authority to see if they will collect it for you. Green lights include mentions of; bread bags, frozen food bags, squeezable bottles, bubble wrap, and carrier bags.
Carbon Pledge
We've pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030, and we're already well on the way. Our warehouses are now powered by solar panels, with the extra juice fuelling our fleet of electric vehicles.
Sustainable and ethical
We've made it this generation's mission to put sustainability at the forefront. We’ve pledged to be Carbon Neutral by 2030 and are well on our way to getting there. LDPE4 recyclable bags, a Roastery powered entirely by solar energy, and a hell of a lot more.
our story
We, at Wogan Coffee, have been lovingly hand-roasting speciality, ethical, sustainable and traceable coffees since 1970. In our third generation, and a wholly independent family company, you can find us rooted in Bristol; the same city as when Mr Wogan established the business over fifty years ago. Laura and James, grandchildren of the bowler hatted gentleman, now have the ropes firmly in their grasp; James as our resident Q Grader in the Bristol Roastery Headquarters, and Laura in London.
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