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Introducing: The Coffee Producer Toolkit

July 13, 2026 · 17 min

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Welcome to The Coffee Producer Toolkit, an eight episode series to help producers have long-term profitable farms.

Hosted by coffee journalist James Harper (Filter Stories podcast) and fermentation specialist Lucia Solis (Making Coffee with Lucia Solis podcast), this series breaks down essential topics including agronomy, fermentation, pricing, sales, and marketing.

In this introductory episode, you'll learn about James and Lucia’s backgrounds, why they joined forces to build this resource, and how this toolkit is structured to help you run a viable coffee business.

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Cover art: Nick Hafner

The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:

The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro

All episodes of Filter Stories – Coffee Documentaries

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