Sourcing Partners

Our roasting team is thrilled to announce that we have won both a Silver and Bronze medal for two coffees in the 2026 Global Coffee Awards! In the Filter coffee category, Worka Chelbessa (washed, from Gedeb, Ethiopia) received a Silver award, and Concepción Huísta (washed, from Huehuetenango, Guatemala) won a Bronze award.  We are especially honored to receive these awards because they were selected by a double-blind panel of expert judges. That means that no one involved in judging the coffees knew which samples were which. As roasters who often cup our own coffees blind, we appreciate that the Global Coffee Awards judges simply evaluate...

Here are some of our team members' favorite moments & takeaways from our adventure to the west coast! 

An afternoon filled with the folks and food that represent WNC’s rich heritage. Sample a passport’s worth of international flavors, made lovingly by our talented friends and neighbors. Proceeds will benefit Pisgah Legal Services’ Justice For All Program, which provides free legal aid to improve the lives of immigrants in 18 WNC counties.

In March of 2025, Matt McDaniel (Cooperative's Founder) and Eli Masem (Roaster and Director of Quality), had the privilege of traveling to Colombia with the intention of diving deep into the sourcing, quality, and logistical systems of our long time importing partners, Caravela Coffee.  We've sourced many of our Latin American offerings from Caravela since the very beginning of Cooperative Coffee Roasters and we thought it was time to see it all first hand from the country where they began and where they have their greatest reach. We were able to see all aspects of  their supply chain from farm...