This past weekend Ramacafe La Virgen Fine Coffee Estate in Nicaragua opened their school library! Our community is so happy we could partner with providing Spanish reading books for the children.  These children love school and love to read and now they will have books to enjoy when they previously had none. Our customers at El Dorado Coffee & Tea Co. purchased the books when they would come in to get their coffee. Face in a Book Bookstore in El Dorado Hills also donated about 40 books towards the library in Nicaragua. We are excited for the families there to begin a reading adventure! 

Back in January, a few us traveled to the mountains of Nicaragua and spent time with this wonderful community during the coffee harvest and summer school. That harvest of coffee is now here in our warehouse and we are excited to be able to drink it with you!

Thank you to everyone who gave their time and money and heart to this effort. 

We hope to get them some more books soon!

The Project2Love Team
Building Bridges of Hope
Through Education and Coffee

Come and Meet our Coffee Farmer's from Nicaragua

Come and Meet our Coffee Farmer's from Nicaragua
This Saturday April 28th, 11:30-1:30pm

Follow Your Coffee From Seed to Cup
Henry and Gaby Hueck of Nicaragua will be visiting this Saturday and will be sampling coffee from Gaby's farm, Las Marias Estate. Come say Hi! and learn more about coffee!

Books for Education Sponsors
Customers at Shingle Springs Coffee, Local Boy Scouts, New Morning Shelter, Freeport Elementary School, Face in a Book, and Students at Marina Middle School, El Dorado Roasting Co.
We Check out our blog for more info: www.project2love.blogspot.com Email us at: hannah.project2@gmail.com

Building Bridges of Hope
Through Education and Coffee
At El Dorado Roasting Co., we believe education is key to breaking cycles of poverty and building up communities. We have started projects that support the efforts of education locally in our own community and abroad. Our first project overseas is in Nicaragua where we visited this past summer. El Dorado Roasting Co. is partnering with the Hueck family in Nicaragua who have four coffee farms that have great needs in the areas of faith, health and education. They provide free education for the children and adults on the coffee farms and in the surrounding community.

Libros para los Ninos in Nicaragua

We just got Spanish Reading Books for the School Library we are helping build in Nicaragua at La Virgen Fine Coffee Estate! We are so excited to to beable to provide books for the community there! If you would like to partner with us we will have some for sale in our coffee shop, http://www.sscoffeeco.blogspot.com/ Shingle Springs Coffee Co. for customers to purchase from $2-$10 We will be delivering them this Spring.
Email me if you have any questions or if you would like to partner with us!
hannah.project2@gmail.com

Shingle Springs Coffee Co.

El Dorado Roasting Co. has opened a Coffee & Tea House called Shingle Springs Coffee Co.

Our Women Producer Coffees are brewed daily and for sale in the retail section! Just look for the coffee to have a Project2Love stamp on it!

We are excited to offer this coffee to the community...come say Hi!

We are located off of HI 50, just take the Ponderosa Road exit and go straight and you will see us on the right!

Check out our blog at http://www.sscoffeeco.blogspot.com/ and follow us twitter at @sscoffeeco

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

Coffee womenincoffee Sacramento

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!