Seattle-based green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest is reprising its long-running Let’s Talk Coffee event, with plans for Peru in September of 2025.
Held in coffee-producing countries, and convening a broad range of actors from throughout the coffee circle — including producers, roasters, lenders, government and NGO representatives, policy leaders and more — the multi-day event is currently planned for “late September.”
This 20th iteration of Let’s Talk Coffee would be the first since Sustainable Harvest, formerly based in Portland, Oregon, was acquired by multinational coffee trader Sucafina. It would also be the first under the watch of Let’s Talk Coffee Director Al Liu.
“Peru is our number one origin based on total volume of exports,” Liu said in an announcement from Sustainable Harvest today. “We’re thrilled to be staging our legacy event there to highlight coffees from our producer partners around the country.”
Coffee lands in the Chanchamayo province of Peru. Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown.
This will be the second time Let’s Talk Coffee has come to Peru. According to Sustainable Harvest, attendees will have opportunities to “intimately familiarize themselves with this diverse origin and its high-quality coffees as they build relationships with thought leaders.”
The exact dates and location of Let’s Talk Coffee 2025 have not yet been released. Registration is expected to open in early 2025.
In today’s announcement, Sustainable Harvest Managing Director Kat Nolte Ferguson said the event will continue to promote the importing company’s “Relationship Coffee” brand and sourcing model.
“Hosting the event in Peru signifies a commitment to Relationship Coffee,” Nolte Ferguson said. “Direct relationship sourcing is a trading model distinct from our traditional, efficient, commercial counterpart. Relationship Coffee puts human connections in the driver’s seat of coffee sourcing, and this in-person event is a venue for those connections.”
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