Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Featured Donor: Sweet Maria’s

Over the past few years, interest in home coffee roasting has grown exponentially, and Sweet Maria’s, based in Oakland, CA, has played a central role in the movement.

Their website offers advice on how to choose a home roaster, detailed roasting instructions, photos of beans at each roasting stage and forums for discussing all things coffee. They also sell supplies, equipment and green coffee to get eager home roasters started.

For the second year, Sweet Maria’s produced the 2011 Dogs of Coffee Calendar, which benefits Coffee Kids and five other charities. The calendar has photographs of dogs and other creatures from various coffee-producing regions. Co-owner Thompson Owen took the photographs, except for Mr. May, which was contributed by Aleco Chigounis.

The unique calendar is available for purchase on Sweet Maria’s Web site and is currently offered as buy one, get one free!

Sweet Maria’s is a long-time donor and has supported Coffee Kids through various fundraisers throughout the years. They strive to educate their customers and online followers about our work, and their site is consistently one of the top referrer’s to the Coffee Kids Web site.

Do you home roast? Show and tell over on our Facebook page.