From seed to cup: The journey to sustainable coffee

April 15, 2019 • 1 min read

A lot of people, love and science make your morning cup happen.

At a coffee farm on the side of volcano in Costa Rica, Starbucks is innovating and learning on behalf of the coffee farmers everywhere. All that research is open-source, in pursuit of making coffee the first sustainable agriculture product. It’s a huge undertaking, but one that everyone involved takes personally.

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