In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl talks about the organic coffee business she has started with her partner. Transcript: 00:01:24 Jack Kind of a a sky blue or or light blue color with a a really cool logo and everything on there and so I was just wondering like what's going on with that? 00:01:36 Xochitl Well, that I started selling organic coffee. My partner is a coffee farmer in the Sierra Juarez, which is an area mountainous area of Wahaca where I live. 00:01:50 Xochitl Yeah. And he he's a farmer, so he does things like, uh, he plants beans, corn, coffee, pineapples, mangoes, avocados. But the big one of the big. 00:02:07 Xochitl Sources of income for coffee farmers are for farmers here in Osaka is coffee, is coffee used to be quite well paid, but unfortunately the the price of coffee has really gone down a lot. I'm not sure what's going on, but the market. 00:02:22 Xochitl It's not that there's more supply than demand. It's just I think, how. 00:02:29 Xochitl Some things have been happening with exports to the United States and prices and the dollar and the peso and how they're moving up and down. It's caused a lot of issues and. 00:02:41 Xochitl Well, I was talking to him and he was he was telling me that. 00:02:45 Xochitl They can only sell their coffee in parchment at 41 pesos, which is about like 2 bucks a kilo. A kilo is 2 point. 00:02:53 Jack Dollars a kilogram for. Oh my God. 00:02:56 Xochitl Yes, it's parchment coffee, so it's not like roasted or anything. It's just it that has to go through a whole process before it's ready to drink, but it's. 00:03:05 Jack MMM. 00:03:07 Xochitl It's still far to cheap price for organic coffee, and they're not making any money off of it anymore. And also. 00:03:16 Jack Someone's making money though. It's like the middleman, you know, they're. 00:03:19 Xochitl Yeah, it's the middleman is making money because the the price of coffee, especially organic coffee and local coffee, has gone up on the market, but they're not paying coffee funds. 00:03:21 Jack Yeah. 00:03:28 Jack Right. But the farmers are getting screwed on the on the the back end, yeah. 00:03:33 Xochitl Yes, it's exactly what's happening. So it's it's really been a disaster for a lot of people. And yeah, I was talking to him and I just had the idea to sell his coffee here in the city because I live here. 00:03:35 Jack Yeah. 00:03:45 Xochitl City. 00:03:46 Jack Hmm. 00:03:47 Xochitl And you know, we talked about it and we made some plans and we kind of it just got, I just kind of posted it on an expat wahaka group saying hey, guys like would you be interested in organic coffee? 00:04:01 Xochitl And a bunch of people were like, oh, yeah, you know, we didn't know how to price it. Like, we didn't know. 00:04:05 Xochitl Anything about it? 00:04:06 Xochitl Because he's gonna coffee farmer and his family has done coffee farming for generations. But like he's never really been on the on this like market end of. 00:04:14 Xochitl Things. 00:04:15 Xochitl Because what they usually do is they they belong to an organization coffee organization called Niche. 00:04:21 Xochitl Yeah. Which is like organic coffee organization and. 00:04:25 Xochitl They they give them like. 00:04:28 Xochitl Courses and stuff on how to grow organic coffee and different varieties that are worth more money and all these kind of. 00:04:34 Xochitl Things. 00:04:35 Xochitl But because of how the market's going and I don't know what's happening, they're only able to buy 200 kilos on average from each coffee farmer. 00:04:45 Jack Oh, it's nothing. 200 kilos. 00:04:45 Xochitl And. 00:04:47 Xochitl Yeah, the the usual production is at least five. You usually at least have 500 kilos leftover after that, you know, even for a small farmer. So uh. 00:05:01 Xochitl Yeah. So it got to the point, you know, they have they have like at least 300 kilos or leftovers. So I talked to him and we went through the whole process of deciding to sell it and we g