Santa’s Yard is the festive edition of our house espresso blend and features coffee from Guatemala and Ethiopia, blended to highlight notes of toffee, apple and cinnamon. As espresso, this coffee is incredibly juicy and floral, whilst with milk, it reveals toffee like notes of brown sugar and a honeyed mouthfeel. The Guatemalan component, Primavera Sisterhood, comes from select female producers in Huehuetenango. 2024 is our first year purchasing from this community and supporting this initiative.

Gender equity is a longstanding challenge for the coffee industry; female coffee growers have less access to land, credit, training, and basic education even though women make key contributions to plant care, harvesting, and processing coffee. Research has shown that when women are empowered to make decisions, including financial decisions about their coffee farms, families and communities are more successful and their needs are better met.

We are proud to support this community as it hits one of our key sourcing pillars: Female Economic Empowerment.

The Ethiopian component is sourced from a single farmer Makuriya Wako in the town of Gedeb in the Gedeo region. This coffee was bought through the Lalissa Project which provides support to 97 farmers in southern Ethiopia to improve quality and yield.

Supporting this farmer hits one of our key sourcing pillars: Sustainable Initiatives.

Santa’s Yard showcases work from artist Huyen Phan, whose work has come through from Community Arts Project UK. We partner with CAP UK to exhibit artworks created by residents inside prisons across the UK, as well as on release.