Specialist green bean buyers now deal directly with the farmers ensuring higher payments in return for higher quality and safer working practices. Traditional growing methods, such as under the leaf cover of native trees, are being encouraged. The growth of the speciality coffee market has led to a much different approach. All this is to provide cheap instant coffee, of which the UK is one of the largest consumers.
This has meant producers have received inadequate remuneration, been forced to decimate rainforest to increase production and use chemicals such as DEET to control pests. The knock on effects of these practices include increased rates of illness amongst workers, the removal of animal and bird habitats resulting in ever decreasing numbers and the dumping of billions of tons of waste product into river systems. Historically coffee producers have received a pretty raw deal from large multi-national food corporations. We choose to roast small lots of carefully selected coffee beans from around the world.
Your beans are posted out after cupping and every bags has a ‘roasted on’ date. We roast every Monday and Thursday and cup each roast to check our own stringent quality standards. We roast twice weekly to ensure all our customers receive the freshest coffee we can provide.
We are a small team with a huge enthusiasm for coffee. Silver Oak Coffee is a micro roastery based in north Cambridgeshire.
