Heading back to Nicaragua

Dear Friends,
We will be traveling back to Nicaragua this January to do Education projects with Hueck Family at their finca in Matagalpa, La Virgen Fine Coffee Estate. We are excited to start ongoing partnerships with the community there and participate with the end of their coffee harvest! While there, some friends and I will be teaching the students English, Art, and soccer skills as part of the Finca's summer camp they put on for the children who live in the community. I believe education is key to breaking cycles of poverty and it is our goal to partner up with communities we buy coffee from to bridge the gap from grower to consumer, and empower people to live fully. To be more conscious of the world as we drink our coffee from 'seed to cup.' We would love for you to partner with us as we build bridges of hope by showing God's love to the least of these.

Our current needs for the trip are:
Soccer balls, soccer goals and jerseys
Shoes for the children, all different sizes
Notebooks, pencils, colored pencils, pens, calculators
Sowing machines, thread, material, scissors

If you would like to help partner in any way EMAIL me at Hannah.project2@gmail.com

Mucho Amor,
Hannah

Photo credits to jennaraeg.tumblr.com
love u buddy!

Today was the first day our coffee was on the shelf at Whole Foods Folsom!!

El Salvador and Guatemala has Arrived!!

El Salvador Nombre de Dios and Guatemala Cafe de Mujer have arrived today in the warehouse. We are so excited to be bring this coffee into the U.S and share it with all of you! It will be featured in Whole Foods in Folsom and at our new cafe, Shingle Springs Coffee Co. It also has Project2Love featured on it!!

Sowing Projects

Hello Friends!

We are gearing up for this January to journey back to Nicaragua with sowing and baking projects with our dear friends Henry and Gaby Hueck in Nicaragua of Ramacafe. During the past month I have been learning how to sow and have been so thankful and feel so blessed by my friends with 'Made with Lots of Love' that have taken me under their wing. They are teaching me a lost art that I will be able to share with others soon. We will be making handbags, cute dresses, and tops with the local women.

I keep in the back of my mind all the sweet families we met high up in the mountains of Matagalpa, Nicaragua and know that soon I will see them again. And beable to fulfill words I promised them a few months ago.

Til then, I have memories locked in time waiting to drive up that moutain and see those precious faces again!



Hannah

Whole Foods and Women Producers

We are pleased to share with you that three of our Women Producer Coffees will be featured in Whole Foods in Folsom!!! Look for them labeled: Project2Love Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador!! These are dear to our hearts as we believe in supporting efforts that connect the grower, the producer, and the consumer.

Our Guatemala and El Salvador are coming from SF tomorrow (20 bags of coffee) and was shipped specially for us on a boat with thousands of other coffees. We are greatful for the shipping co. for supporting small producers in Latin America!

Mery is currently in Brazil scouting out another coffee that we will hopefully be bringing into the US next harvest!

Mountain Democrat

This week we are featured in the Mountain Democrat, California's Oldest Newspaper Est. 1851

The article is called 'Getting the MOST from a ROAST'

Here is a link to the article you can check out here:

 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/featured-content/featured-stories/retired-firemans-coffee-business-helps-others/

El Salvador Nombre de Dios

Nombre de Dios farm is run by fourth generation coffee growers, Maria Elena and her two sisters. They carry on the tradition of their grandfather, who planted the farm in the 1860’s. Located 1500 meters above sea level, in the highlands of Alotepec-Metepan Mountain Range of El Salvador, the coffee produced here has tastes of citrus fruit, sweet apricot, and sweet Belgium chocolate with balanced acidity.

The growth and development of the community is a priority for the family farm; they have donated land where a school, clinic, football field, and church were built. They are also Members of the IWCA and have received Cup of Excellence awards in the last 5 years.

Cafe de Mujer

We are excited to partner with these Women in Guatemala. This coffee is produced and cultivated by a Co-Op of smallholder women farmers. The coffee is strictly high grown at 1500 meters in the highlands of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This coffee is part of a project that supported certifications for sustainable practices for women in the coffee value chain resulting in fair-trade and sustainable coffee. The Co-Op has members who represent over nine linguistic Mayan languages. This coffee has an intense acidity, and rich complex flavor with full body.

Cafe de Mujer from Huehuetenango, Guatemala is on a boat making it's way to California. This is the official Mayacert certification showing that the coffee is produced by women. This certificate verifies that this is a sustainable program.

Carmichael Park Farmer's Market

Farmer's Market, vegetables, fruit, coffee, tea, Carmichael park, sacramento,

Come visit us next weekend at Carmichael Park Farmer's Market! It will be our second week. We will have hot/iced Coffee and Tea. We also have our whole bean coffee and loose leaf tea! There are some amazing Farmer's at this market. Cheese from a family dairy farm that has been in business for over 90 years, local honey, Napa Valley Wine and so much more. We bought some amazing heirloom tomatoes and honey dew from Azolu farm. Come check it out! They have live music, plenty of shade and picnic tables!!

Designing Dreams Fashion Show

Giving, love, life threatening disease, children, fashion, design, heels, tea, coffee, sweet-dreams, Sacramento, Tiana Vega

El Dorado Roasting is teaming up with the Sweet Dreams Foundation this next weekend on August 13th for the Designing Dreams Fashion in Sacramento. The Sweet Dreams foundation was created to change the quality of life for children who have been diagnosed with a life threatening disease through their dream bedroom. Most children Sweet Dreams works with spend most of their time going from their home to the hospital and are not able to play like normal children. My good friend, Jennifer Richards, is the President and Interior Designer of the charity and strives to improve the lives of these children.
Check out more info www.sweet-dreams.org

We will be offering a variety of Coffee and Tea for donations to benefit the charity. It will be at the Memorial Auditorium, will have 11 designers, over a hundred models and all for charity! We will have a special 'Sweet Dreams' Superfruit tea we created for the charity. The cost for the runway fashion show is $25. Check out more info at www.designingdreamsfashionshow.com

We are excited to be part of this and hope you can make it! We will be there in our heels showing love through our actions!

Farmer's Market, Sunrise Mall, Placerville, Saturday morn, coffee, tea, granola

Hey Friends! We will be at the Farmer's Markets on
Friday in the old shopping center off blue ravine in Folsom
Downtown Placerville and Sunrise Mall on Saturday
And at the other Sunrise market near the bridge on Sunday
Come see us at our booth and get some coffee and tea!

Old Sugar Mill in Sacramento Wine and Cheese Event

coffee, community, family, wine, cheese, hibiscus tea, old sugar mill, sacramento

We had a fun time this weekend at the Old Sugar Mill in Sacramento roasting coffee with our small roaster. It was so great to meet all the other small business owners and share in their stories! Our Hibiscus Tea was a favorite and the Women's Harvest Cafe de Costa Rica Coffee as well! More events to come!

Old Sugar Mill

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Beautiful weather this weekend at the Old Sugar Mill in Sacramento!

Packaging Party

Packaging our first Women's Coffee today! Women's Harvest...

Nutty and sweet

Our Costa Rica Women's Harvest coffee is perfectly nutty and sweet. We are cupping it this afternoon and will be packaging it tomorrow!

Women's Harvest Cafe de Costa Rica is here!

Our first Women's Coffee has arrived from Costa Rica and is in the warehouse. We are excited to be the first to bring it to the U.S. market! Email us at project2love@gmail.com if you are interested in using this coffee for fundraisers or for your local business!

Las Mujeres de Nicaragua

         We just got back from visiting Ramacafe in Nicaragua and are excited to partner with them for our 'Women in Coffee' projects. This coming Harvest Season we will be partnering with Ramacafe La Virgen Estate with sowing and baking classes. We are so excited to work with these women who are so dedicated to their families, communities, and share our passion for coffee. We all signed a letter showing our intentions to fulfill our promises to invest time into this project to ensure confidence that we will follow through. We also plan to participate in the Summer Camp Ramacafe puts on during Harvest Season for kids with Art and English classes to keep them from working on the fincas.

Made with Lots of Love

    Always be faithful in little things, for in them our strength lies- Mother Teresa 

      In two weeks Project2Love will be in Managua, Nicaragua to visit some coffee farms and will be bringing some dresses along with us made out of pillow cases by www.madewithlotsoflove.org to give to little girls at a school on one of the coffee farms.

   Made with Lots of Love is made up of women and one man who are passionate about loving people and sowing. They take pillow cases and used material to make dresses to for little girls all over the globe. Over 500 dresses have been sent to Uganda, South Africa, Honduras, Belize, Cambodia, and our local White Rock Apartments here in El Dorado County. This group is not only making a difference across the seas but also here in our local community. 

    Human trafficking is an issue dear to Project2Love's heart and children overseas are less likely to be kidnapped and picked up for human trafficking if they have something so simple as a patch on their clothing. It shows that they belong to someone...Each dress has a patch sown on it that represents a global org called Hope4Women International.

    How you can help partner with us: Have any old pillow cases? Traveling overseas and would like to give some little ones a dress? Or know of anyone in your neighborhood that has a need for clothes? Let us know. Even if you don’t have any sowing skills (like me) you can still help pin and cut material…

   Check out their website at www.madewithlotsoflove.org if you would like to be part of this cute little project or you can email us at hannah.project2@gmail.com

Women's Harvest

     
      Currently this coffee is on a boat making its way up to California to be roasted here in Northern California by El Dorado Roasting Co. Cafe de Costa Rica 'Women's Harvest' is the first coffee offered by El Dorado Roasting Co. that is part of Project2Love. This coffee is funded by the International Women's Coffee Alliance -Costa Rica chapter as being harvested by women and donates part of their proceeds to a  home for girls ran by Nuns that have been abandoned or abused called the Hogar 'Madre del Redentor.' El Dorado Roasting Co. is the first to bring this coffee in from Costa Rica to be sold in the U.S. market. The Women's Harvest coffee is currently only sold in Costa Rica and soon we will be able to share in the work they are doing there.

The beginnings

              This summer Project2Love will be journeying to Managua, Nicaragua and surrounding areas to partner with the Hueck family who have four coffee farms there. This will be the first international trip for Project2Love. The surrounding community has great needs in the areas of health, spirituality, and education. These farms are known as the leaders in social responsibility and one farm is ran by 'Women's hands.' Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere above Haiti, according to the U.S. Department of State and about 46% of the population lives on less than $1.15 a day. By going to Nicaragua we hope to create an ongoing partnership and relationship with the families involved on the farms and the surrounding community by different avenues of support. Our goal is to support women in coffee projects with our Project2Love program.      

            Project2Love was born to promote coffee grown and nurtured by women with a desire to provide a secure and sustainable future for them and their families. Our goal is to enhance the lives of women in global coffee communities by creating a channel for distributing their coffee as well as other products. One of the farms that we will be visiting in Nicaragua is run by women and we seek to support them. Our mission is to support our sisters from seed to cup; to buy, roast, and sell their coffees in the US market.  

            This all about connecting our world here in Northern California, to their world in the mountains of Nicaragua. We also have coffee we are selling from El Dorado Roasting Co. where part of the proceeds will go to support women in coffee projects, help us get to Nicaragua and provide materials to enhance their local community.

             If you purchase coffee online through http://www.eldoradoroasting.com/ online shop they will donate part of the proceeds to our trip and projects over there. Just write 'Project2Love' in the comment section.

Peace and Love
Hannah