This is particularly welcome. I do not think that the skin can be removed,
but it is not done anyway commercial.
That just happens to be one innovation too many and will produce a
seriously better product.
What is here deliverable is a device
able to correctly roast a few beans, immediately grind them and then produce a
pot of fresh coffee. This obviously
allows direct bean sales farm to consumer.
This will be a revolution in the economics of coffee farming.
It also means a broad expansion in quality
choices and local branding as well as seriously cheaper options for consumers
who are quite happy to pay for full service at a coffee shop but also want
access to quality coffee at home which is a problem simply because of aging of
an opened pound of coffee.
Bonaverde - empower farmers around the
world to trade their coffee directly
Help
build the infrastructure and trust needed to move forward with the coffee
revolution: Better prices for farmers and fresher coffee for consumers!
http://igg.me/at/bonaverde
Empower farmers around the world to directly trade coffee
Help provide the highly needed
infrastructure, funds and a technology that bridges the gap between farmer and
consumer - so farmers get more for their beans while consumers can finally
enjoy a truly fair and fresher than ever coffee.
Help build the highly
needed infrastructure and trust to move forward with the coffee revolution: a
movement to make coffee farmers get more for their work and consumers enjoy a
coffee that’s truly fair and fresher than ever before.
The
problem.
Currently, there are
up to 17 steps between the farmer and the consumer while farmers usually profit
least: they only get around 1% of the final retail price - 5-6 dollar cent per
kilo, a kilo that later is sold for 5-6€. Do they have an option? Roasting the
beans themselves isn't one as e.g. the EU charges too high taxes when importing
roasted beans.
But what if we were
able to shift the roasting process to the consumer? Farmers could import raw
beans and still get by far better prices, and you would get the freshest coffee
ever tasted.
Our
vision.
There IS a way to
bring the roasting process into everyone’s home! Thanks to the world’s first
roast-grind-brew coffee machine that we developed 2 years ago. After building
135 prototypes and having more than 15,000 people taste our coffee, we got more
and more encouraging feedback and decided to turn to the crowd to fund our
machine.
Over the past month,
we ran a Kickstarter campaign that exceeded our wildest expectations: We are
finally able to produce our machine on our own!
But that was only the
first step.
The
next chapter.
So far, 7 farmers
signed up to become part of our movement. That is great - but we want to make
it possible for hundreds and thousands of them!
With this project,
we’re trying to achieve that - we want to further build this community to not
only reach more farmers and help enhance their infrastructure, but also and
especially build their trust: We want to show them how many people believe in
the idea already so they have the courage to join in - to pass on multi-years
contracts with big brands and instead gain self-dependence.
We’ve created smaller
packages so everyone could chip in their part. The focus remains on the farmers
- you can still get the machine here, but we will not enhance it further (as we
did on Kickstarter) or go into too much detail about it.
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