Following our return from Ethiopia's sacred Kaffa highlands... We're currently documenting ancient coffee wisdom with Tariku's family wisdom, guided by Bereket's cultural translations—while you help decide where curiosity takes us next.
Ethiopian Highlands
17 days with Tariku's community
Ancient Coffee Ceremonies
With Bereket as cultural guide
Three-generation coffee wisdom
Sacred Mother Tree ceremonies
Community harvest traditions
Our 87 Cultural Explorers are deciding where curiosity takes us next. Each destination offers different mysteries to unravel.
Mountain terracing wisdom and ancient trade route ceremonies. How did coffee travel from Ethiopia to the world through Yemeni ports?
Cooperative resilience stories and community innovation traditions. How do small farmers maintain cultural identity within global markets?
Plantation complexity meets modern regenerative practices. How are traditional fazenda communities adapting to sustainability movements?
Cultural Explorers get exclusive voting access, plus first access to all documentation and behind-the-scenes discoveries.
Join Us in Exploring & VoteCurrently 87 members • Quality over quantity approach
We're not just collecting stories—we're learning how to respectfully document cultural knowledge with Bereket's guidance and Tariku's family's permission.
Established documentation permissions and cultural protocols with Tariku's family and community elders.
Recording complete coffee ceremonies with Bereket's cultural translations and family explanations.
Currently documenting how knowledge passes from grandmother to mother to daughter—the unbroken chain of coffee tradition.
Family review of all documentation before any public sharing. Their approval guides what we share and how.
Full ceremony recordings with cultural context
Audio interviews with Bereket's translations
Written cultural guides and ceremony explanations
Direct producer impact updates and relationship progress
We intentionally keep our community small—quality cultural exploration over growth metrics. Here's what our current members are experiencing:
"These people don't just buy our coffee—they understand our culture. When Alice and Nick share our stories, their community asks about our families, not just our beans. This is how coffee relationships should be."
— Almaz, producer partner from previous Ethiopian expedition
Voting on next destination — Yemen currently leading with 34 votes
Discussing cultural discoveries — Active conversations about Ethiopian ceremonies
Brewing Tariku's coffee — Trying traditional ceremony techniques at home
Reading full documentation — Deep dives into three-generation coffee wisdom
If you're looking for quick coffee content or travel highlights, this isn't the right fit. But if you're genuinely curious about the cultural stories behind your coffee—and you want to help shape where that curiosity leads—then maybe it is.
You get immediate access to our current Ethiopian documentation—the full cultural context we're still working on.
You can vote on our next destination (voting closes when we hit 100 members or December 31st, whichever comes first).
You join conversations with other cultural explorers who actually care about producer stories, not just coffee specs.
When we do travel again, you get real-time updates, full documentation, and first access to any coffee we bring back.
If you join and decide this isn't what you were looking for—for any reason—just let us know within 60 days. Full refund, no questions asked.
— Alice & Nick
Currently documenting with Tariku's family in Ethiopia's highlands
