BLUE TURACO COFFEE

2024 - that's a wrap! We've faced many challenges, but so many opportunities and WINS! Thank you to everyone who has bought a bag of Blue Turaco Coffee from our website, or through our retail partners Co-op, Waitrose & Partners and Ocado Retail. And to anyone who helped amplify our mission by reading, engaging with, or sharing our posts. Means the world to us. Here are some of the things we are celebrating this year: 🙌 Getting listed on Ocado 🗞️ Wycliffe in The Times...and in Waitrose Weekend Magazine ☕ Introducing coffee lovers to 100% Specialty Ugandan Robusta at London Coffee Festival..and then again at Bristol Coffee Festival 🌴 2 trips to Uganda, for 2 coffee harvests ☕ Many thousands of kilos of coffee picked, dried, processed 🤝 Fellow smallholder farmers receiving more per kilo because we buy direct 🍎 Nearly 3000 meals provided for Ugandan village schools 🙏 Heaps and heaps of support from our community AND 💡 WE MANAGED TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON! 2025... Let's go! 🙌 💙

If anyone is doing their Christmas shopping instead of working this afternoon… You can order Blue Turaco coffee on our site before 5pm for a Christmas delivery 🎄 Bundles are a good option. Link in comments. 💙 Let’s go!

💙 BLUE is BACK! We are happy to announce that our blue packs are back in stock!   You can now purchase our ground coffee (blue packs) as well as our whole beans (orange packs) online.   They make a great stocking filler.   And a nice gift for any unexpected Christmas visitors ;) 🎄 Christmas deliveries The last day to order for a Christmas delivery is Wednesday 18th before 5pm. Link in comments.   Let's go! 💙 

Who else has the coffee grinder in the photo? At least 2 members of the Blue Turaco team have this coffee grinder. This photo is of Rosie's, taken in her kitchen. Nice sticker. It is a good, solid choice. We got to talking about what our favourite coffee grinders are. Wild chats, we know. Our Top 3 coffee grinders are now on our blog - link in comments. What grinder do you use? And do you have a dream machine? 💙 #specialtycoffee #robusta #coffeemerch #smallbusiness

Basically, no rest! The calendar of a smallholder coffee-farmer. The Robusta coffee harvest in Uganda happens twice a year. April - June and October - December although, of course, it's nature, so these periods stretch somewhat. The harvests involve lots of work. Wycliffe is in the middle of it as we speak. And when the harvest is done, there will be much more to do.... Pruning Bending Clearing Maize! Beans Sweet potatoes And more. Link to our new blog, The Calendar of a Smallholder Farmer, in the comments. Let's go! 💙 #robusta #smallholderfarmer #specialtycoffee #coffeeharvest #startup

Last month of the year. Let’s go! 💙

📣 Wish us LUCK! We are beyond excited and a touch nervous to be a Future of Food finalist. This means that today, we are pitching in front of judges to win £10k today. Our 1 minute pitch is ready! 🎤 Wycliffe has taken a detour from the harvest for the first time to attend especially. And…. Robusta is the future Wish us luck 🤞 * Future of Food Competition is run by Barney😜 Mauleverer and is a competition for food entrepreneurs shaping tomorrow’s future. Link in comments

Like the buffet table at a party. This was our conclusion after talking to Wycliffe about how his coffee picking is going in Uganda. 🍒 You see, the coffee harvest spans a couple of months and not all coffee cherries will ripen at the same time. 😋 There will be a period, towards the beginning of the coffee harvest, where the bulk of the cherries will be ripe at the same time - that’s when you do the bulk of the picking (some 40% or so, Wycliffe estimates). This will be your main helping. 😋 After that, you go back in for a “nibble”... maybe 10% one week, another 10% the next… It's like the buffet table at a party; you have your main helping, but who doesn’t go back for a nibble? 😇 You probably sneak in a little nibble before the main helping, let's be honest. This happens in coffee picking too, to collect those early bloomers. Wycliffe is in Uganda picking coffee cherries with fellow smallholder farmers right now, in between bursts of rain. More soon. Let's go! 💙 #robusta #coffeeharvest #specialtycoffee #smallholderfarmers #startup

Imagine walking for kilometres on an empty stomach... and then having to do maths! That was Wycliffe’s personal experience as a child growing up in a remote coffee-growing village in Uganda. Childhood hunger in these villages puts children off facing the long walks to school and means they can’t concentrate if they get there. 🥣 That’s why every pack of coffee we sell, buys 2 meals for schools where our coffee is grown; that’s a day’s-worth of food for a child. 🥣 We’ve purchased over 27000 school meals since the start of Blue Turaco Coffee. 🙏 THANKS to anyone who has purchased our coffee or liked or shared a post to amplify our mission! 💡And… we’ve just added the option to purchase additional school meals directly on our site when you’re buying your coffee. Link in comments. Let’s go! 💙

🤝 BLUE TURACO COFFEE is now available from CLF Distribution Ltd We are excited about working with more independent retailers and making specialty Robusta more accessible in the UK. It's a revolution didn't you know - a robusta one... Let's go! 💙 🧡 Thank you to our extended team at Sweet Thyme Foods, Grace Kennedy & Emily Boyce 🙏 #coffee #robusta #specialtycoffee #startup