Is Grind coffee organic?Updated 2 months ago

The short answer is no, because it doesn’t need to be.

This is the long answer: the reason our coffee isn’t always certified organic is that it’s difficult and costly for farmers to register for the certification, and this isn’t viable for many of the smallholder farms we work with. 

The farmers we work with are experts who have been growing coffee for decades—they know what they’re doing. We’re not going to tell them how to do their job. To ask a producer who is already farming responsibly to undertake a three-year process to become certified organic, requiring more money and time without the guarantee of better sales, isn’t something we’re willing to do just so that we can put a logo on our packaging. 

We have healthy, long-standing relationships with our partner farms. We’re not going to drop them because they’re too small to afford certification.