We founded Alma on the same 3 key pillars in which our family coffee farms were founded upon: improving lives, sustainable practices, and extraordinary coffee. Improving Lives is something that the Alma team practices every day in the communities we touch. At our farm, we employ and provide suitable living conditions for over 250 coffee pickers during harvest season. At our roastery, each team member is a valued member of our team, and we hope to be their lifelong career path or a crucial steppingstone in achieving their career goals. We are constantly in search of more Sustainable Practices from farm to cup, which is why we chose to roast on state-of-the-art Loring Smart Roasters at our U.S.-based roastery (fun fact: we actually had the first Loring roaster in the state of Georgia)! Not only are Loring Roasters USA-made in Santa Rosa, California, but they are the most fuel-efficient & environmentally sustainable roasters on the market producing 80% less emissions than traditional commercial roasters. Extraordinary Coffee is the fruit of our family legacy. With so many options in the specialty coffee industry, we distinguish ourselves by being able to control the quality of our coffee from the moment it is first planted at our farms until the first sip you experience in that perfectly brewed cup. When you make the choice to drink Alma Coffee, you make the choice to directly support coffee farmers and make a positive impact on the industry we all love, which in turn results in a quality cup that continues improving with each and every harvest. 

When it comes to coffee, there are a lot of options to choose from out there! We founded Alma knowing very well that we were entering a competitive and over-saturated industry, but we have stayed committed to what makes our family coffee story unique: our full vertical integration! Farm-to-cup is a term you may hear quite often in the specialty coffee industry—but what does it mean? To us, farm-to-cup means owning and operating the entire agricultural and coffee roasting process. Coffee from Alma Family Farms never leaves our family’s care, and this results in an extraordinary cup of coffee that has been cared for diligently and roasted expertly before every brewing into your morning cup.  

If you're wondering what vertical integration entails, here is a condensed explanation:

Planting → Nurturing → Harvesting → Wet Processing → Dry Milling → Exporting → Importing → Warehousing → Roasting → Grinding → Brewing