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Honoring Every Human Connected to Our Coffee
For over 20 years, we’ve held an uncompromising commitment to quality: not only in our coffees, but in the way we treat the planet and the people who make what we do possible.
Partnering With Producers
We’re dedicated to sourcing the world’s best coffees while challenging supply chain norms. We do this by honoring our Direct Trade relationships, paying quality premiums for our coffees, and creating multi-year commitments to our producers.
Celebrating Our People
As a people-first culture, we're committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community for the humans of Stumptown by providing training, resources, healthcare, special-interest programs, and time for personal growth.
Sustaining Our Planet
We’re committed to sustainability in our cafes, breweries, and roasting facilities. We're actively working to reduce energy and water consumption, and have set a goal to have zero landfill-bound waste in our manufacturing operations by 2025.
Limited Release!
A Blend of Elemental Proportions
Supernature is a celebration of some of Mother Earth’s best work: her coffee and the humans who tend it. Blended from two organic coffees from Peru and Colombia, Supernature exhibits notes of juicy cherry, green grape, and brown sugar.
We’re proud to serve you this exquisite coffee and proud to support producer partners doing sustainability work that benefits their farms, their communities, and the planet.
For those of you who like to get into the finer details, click here to read the full report. For a bite-sized summary, here ya go:
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We’re still bringing you the best coffee in the best way we know how, using Direct Trade sourcing to ensure the highest quality of life for coffee producers around the world. This includes supporting origin-led projects to create solutions to sustainability challenges in coffee-producing communities.
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The humans of Stumptown continue to blow our minds with their talent, dynamism, and individualism. Last year we added greater incentives to our benefits package, we engaged in community projects, and we continue to strive to create a warm, welcoming, and inclusive community for all.
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We amped up our sustainability efforts in our cafes, breweries, and roasting and manufacturing facilities. And we’re rolling out plans to reduce energy consumption, water consumption, and landfill-bound waste across all our operations.
A look at ways our coffee partnerships go beyond producing great coffee to include collaborative efforts toward a more equitable and environmentally sustainable future for coffee-producing communities.
Find out how we source and serve the best coffees in the world in a way that is good for the people involved and the planet - B Corp edition. Plus, a sneak peak at our sustainability goals for the years ahead.
Take a look behind the cold brew curtain to discover why Stumptown Cold Brew with Oatly is not only delicious but also sustainable thanks to some sweet innovations from our partners at Oatly.
We caught up with Stumptown Cold Brew Operations Manager and home gardener, Tucker Leverton, to get down to the nitty-gritty of composting coffee at home.
Last year, we shared our first ever Sustainability and Impact Report. Click through to get the bite-size summary or dig in to the full 65-page report (if that's your thing).
Ever wondered what “Direct Trade” actually means? Here at Stumptown, it means that we know our producers, we pay high prices for high quality, and we build sourcing relationships that last.
First Direct Trade sourcing relationship with the Aguirre family’s El Injerto farm in Huehuetenango, Guatemala
2010
Portland roastery begins donating burlap bags
All burlap bags (used to transport coffee from origin to roastery) are donated to the City of Portland Community Garden program where they are upcycled to 53 gardens and hundreds of gardeners.
2012
RTO installed at Stumptown’s roastery
RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) installed at Stumptown’s roastery at 100 SE Salmon, recycling heat from the roasting process and reducing roasting emissions to near zero
2017
Finca Churupampa compost project begins
Stumptown provides seed funding for the first phase of a compost project for Finca Churupampa in Peru.
2018
Stumptown achieves B Corp certification
2020
New York roastery moves to Queens
Stumptown’s NY roastery moves from four buildings in Red Hook, Brooklyn to one beautiful building on Wyckoff Avenue in Queens, featuring a host of eco-friendly and efficiency features.
2021
Stumptown releases its First Ever Sustainability & Impact Report
Stumptown recertifies as a B Corp (with 9.7 point score improvement)
FAQ
Over 20 years ago, Stumptown helped coin the term Direct Trade to describe our way of sourcing the world’s best coffees and challenging supply chain norms. And it has been our sourcing philosophy ever since. Instead of buying anonymous coffees from a trader, we know our producers; instead of paying prices linked to the commodity market, we pay premiums driven by quality; and instead of being opportunistic, we forge long-term partnerships with producers. Over the years, the term Direct Trade has become widely used among buyers of specialty coffees, but it means different things to different people. As our business continues to grow and evolve, so will our Direct Trade model to continue our mission of making the most positive impact where we can.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "USDA certified organic foods are grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing, among many factors, soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives. Organic producers rely on natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods to the fullest extent possible."
Coffees can only be designated organic if they've been produced and processed in a manner consistent with these guidelines.
Not all of them, but we do offer quite a few. Organic certification is called out on the labels of all of our organic options, including Holler Mountain, our best-selling organic blend. There’s also French Roast, and if you're interested in single origins, Ethiopia Mordecofe and Indonesia Bies Penantan are two of our favorites, both available year-round. And keep an eye out for seasonal, limited-release organic offerings as well.
Led by the nonprofit network B Lab, B Corp certification is a designation given to businesses that have passed a rigorous assessment and are deemed to be operating at the highest standards, socially and environmentally.
At Stumptown, the process of becoming certified paved the way for us to create systems for evaluating how we run our business. This includes the impacts on our people, the environment, the communities in which we operate, and the farms where we source coffees.
Stumptown offers several organic coffee choices—from classics like Holler Mountain and French Roast, to new-kid-on-the-block Supernature, to unique Single Origins.