Our Model

Sustainable Harvest operates with an emphasis on triple bottom line performance believing that financial, environmental and social returns are all important measurements of the company’s success. With many years experience in the importing business, Sustainable Harvest has a strong reputation in the specialty coffee industry for its Relationship Coffee Model, an innovative approach to importing specialty coffee.

The Relationship Coffee Model is intended to redefine and add value to the “middleman” importer role. In doing so, the company provides full transparency of all business, price and quality information throughout the supply chain in order to foster understanding and supply chain efficiency. The company also provides traceability throughout the entire supply chain, allowing purchasers to know the origin of the coffee and producers to know their product’s final destination. Sustainable Harvest likewise provides business and agricultural training for cooperative managers, providing an avenue for reinvestment in producer communities that benefits the entire supply chain.

In addition, we provide the availability of pre-harvest trade credit and financing necessary to cover the producers’ working capital requirements throughout the harvest cycle. Finally, through our guarantee of total quality control, Sustainable harvest offers a high quality product to purchasers while ensuring a high quality of life for producers and environmental sustainability at origin.