Why we use home compostable packaging for our coffee

Packs of coffee in clear packaging with paper labels

Our search for less environmentally damaging packaging started with a stack of coffee orders all packed up and ready to go out to customers. I suddenly imagined all those plastic pouches going in to the bin and landfill, and then another stack when our next delivery went out, and another and another… I didn’t want … Read more

Cleaning up our act (well, website)

Recently we wrote about discovering our website is very heavy and as a result, had a big carbon footprint. We’ve been doing some work to lighten it up, changing the design and reducing unnecessary features and we’re very happy to say it’s much better now. It’s gone from being dirtier than 56% of websites tested … Read more

Bigger isn’t better for our small business

When you have a small business there is a constant pressure for growth. People with zero experience in business will, upon hearing you have a small business, start offering advice on how to grow. Stories of small businesses that have grown to take on more contracts and more staff are celebrated, and there are thousands … Read more

Fazenda Santa Barbara, Brazil

From the biggest of the beans to the smallest, this week our coffee comes from Brazil, land of small, soft coffee beans. Although Brazil has high altitude growing regions, they’re not quite as high as other coffee producing countries and so coffee from Brazil grows faster, producing smaller beans which aren’t as dense. This means … Read more

Bigger bag sizes and increased postage costs

Up until now we’ve used 200g for the practical reason of it fitting Royal Mail large letter size. However we recently switched to using more rigid cardboard mailers instead of brown paper for posting our coffee. These mailers offer much better protection for the coffee but they pushed us in to the next postal bracket. … Read more

25% off Daterra Brazilian coffee beans

New coffee harvests coming in means we’ve decided to have a sale on some of our current coffee beans to make some room. We’re offering 25% off our Daterra Brazilian coffee beans, which are some of our most popular coffees. To claim the discount, use voucher code Daterra25 at checkout. The coffee beans are: