La Molienda is back!

💌We may have skipped 2021, but we learned a lot this year about the value of community, so we decided to bring back this women-powered gift exchange. It's a way to start 2023 with gender equity top of mind and celebrate women-powered coffee.

🎁La Molienda is a Secret-Santa-style gift exchange—except all you can gift each other is a bag of roasted coffee that was produced by women.

🔎Why “Molienda”? It's the Spanish word for "grinder." One of the last legs in the long journey of coffee, the grinder unifies. We put coffee beans of slightly different shapes and sizes in, and what comes out is a much more homogeneous whole. All the care, work, and people represented in those wee little beans—this is where it all starts coming together for the final transformation into powerful beverage.

How does it work?
1️⃣It doesn’t cost anything to sign up, but by doing so you commit to buying and shipping a bag of coffee produced by women to someone else!
2️⃣When the sign-up deadline ends on January 6, 2023, Día de los Reyes, you will receive a message with the name and address of another participant.
3️⃣Then, use any method you prefer to send that person a bag of coffee! You can buy local or online—and if you need help with where to start, you can check out a database we created for just that purpose.

To sign up and read more about it, check the link in our bio.

(🫢The first time we did it, we didn’t know exactly what we were doing, so this time it’s back and better than ever. Participating in this year’s exchange automatically enters you into a raffle to win 1 of 3 prizes! Stay tuned for more on those prizes...)