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Biodiversity Under Threat

May 5, 2018 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Biodiversity Under Threat

I have written in the past about the history of mining resistance in the Rio Intag region of Ecuador. Unfortunatly the Intag region is not the only beautiful and incredibly bio-diverse region under threat of being contaminated by resource...

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Biodiversity and Resource Extraction Part 1.

May 29, 2017 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Biodiversity and Resource Extraction Part 1.

Many of the most bio-diverse places on Earth are being opened up to resource extraction, and that will have consequences for the future of life on this planet. Whether it is for oil and gas or for minerals, the thirst for the raw materials that...

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Coffee and the Cloud Forest

February 8, 2017 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Coffee and the Cloud Forest

We arrived in the magical Intag valley, walking down from the mountains through various levels of cloud forest and down into the sub-tropical jungle. We rode on horseback until the path became too steep and muddy. We continued on foot, slipping...

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Descending into the Cloud Forest

January 25, 2017 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Descending into the Cloud Forest

We arrived in Quito to a beautiful sunny morning after 24 hours of travel time and having visited 4 airports. We spent a nice day in Quito visiting the Centro Historico, which is full of ancient architecture hinting at the colourful history of...

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Cloud Forest Coffee is proud to support ecological conservation.

January 11, 2016 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Cloud Forest Coffee is proud to support ecological conservation.

The Intag valley is one of the most beautiful and bio-diverse places in Ecuador, which is saying a lot for a country that is full of beauty and bio-diversity. It’s the beauty and the fertility of the land that inspires the local residents...

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Mobile Bike Coffee Cart

September 8, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Mobile Bike Coffee Cart

    We are excited to anounce that we will be launching  a mobile coffee cart this fall 2015. This cart was custom crafted by our skilled carpenter friends, Don and Juliaana Hildebrand. The metal trailer was welded by Milligan...

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The bigger the teeth…

April 5, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
The bigger the teeth…

I had a harrowing arrival into Colombia, where I was nearly deported for having a faulty bank card (there is an entrance fee for Canadians, and I didn”t have the cash to pay, and my debit card only works with some banks!), and I could only...

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The Road To Intag

March 11, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
The Road To Intag

We started off the month of March by going to Otavalo. After a few days in the huge city of Quito, it was nice to get away to a smaller town. I had a contact there, a man named Luis Yamberla that I had met in Canada at an anti-Chevron meeting in...

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A Whirlwind Adventure

February 25, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
A Whirlwind Adventure

Buenas Tardes! This is a guest post by Juliaana, a take on the last 11 days I have spent in this amazing country. After landing in Quito, Francis and I took a bus to meet Marie in the town of Ambato, where a new friend had graciously offered us a...

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A role similar to that of dreams

February 13, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
A role similar to that of dreams

This is another guest post by Marie! I am looking to paint a picture of the last week, a week of visiting amazing towns, biking, soothing ourselves in hot springs, which has been highlighted by meeting various kind and interesting people. And...

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Touring the South of Ecuador

February 5, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Touring the South of Ecuador

Our second week in El Airo was great, despite the fact that it rained everyday.We worked with a local farmer woman called Orfa, doing some weeding on her farm and planting of coffee. After we finished planting she told us we could come back in a...

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Impressions from La Guaca

January 31, 2015 by cloudforestcoffee 0 Comment(s)
Impressions from La Guaca

This is a guest post from Marie! We arrived yesterday in Loja (pronounced Lo-ha), but with impressions from La Guaca still fresh in mind. We had a going away party, a despedida, on the 29th, our last day in the community, and all of the families...

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