Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

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• The Coffee Producer Toolkit #6: Quality Control

  October 12, 2026 · 57 min

  Support the show on Patreon to help us keep making new episodes. In this sixth episode, we give you a practical manual to judge your own coffee quality, so you can negotiate with buyers on a level playing field. We start with the simplest…

• The Coffee Producer Toolkit #5: Price

  September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

  Support the show on Patreon to help us keep making new episodes. In this fifth episode, we give you a practical guide to pricing your coffee to ensure your farm is economically sustainable in the long term. We start by showing you how…

• The Coffee Producer Toolkit #4: Marketing & Sales

  September 14, 2026 · 59 min

  Support the show on Patreon In this fourth episode, we give you a practical guide to finding buyers and selling your coffee into the specialty market. And we finish with the sales conversation itself: the questions to ask in your first…

• The Coffee Producer Toolkit #3: Fermentation

  August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

  Support the show on Patreon In this third episode, we give you a practical manual to take control of your fermentations and improve your farm's profitability.  We start with the basics — what is actually happening inside your tank, where…

• The Coffee Producer Toolkit #2: Processing

  August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  In this second episode, we show you how to stop losing coffee to a badly calibrated pulper, why chasing 100% ripe cherries is actually costing you money, the $480 fix that lets a small farm sort cherries perfectly well, how to keep your…

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