ZFP Member Linea Caffe wins Good Food Award
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Excellence in Coffee
The competition for a Good Food Award is hotter than a fresh cuppa joe! With over 2,000 entries each year, the Good Food Foundation awards excellence in products that help create a “tasty, authentic, and responsible food system.” This year, Zero Foodprint Member Linea Caffe (San Francisco, CA) received an award for one of their several organic and sustainably sourced coffees.
In an Instagram post, Linea shared their excitement:
“Exciting news! Linea Caffe has been awarded the 2024 Good Food Award for our Organic Bire Forest coffee from Ethiopia’s Guji region. 🌍☕️
Crafted with care by our visionary partner Kedir Jebril Imamu and his team of quality-focused farmers, this coffee is one of the sweetest, cleanest sun-dried natural process coffees you’ll try.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we’ve roasted a small batch of this award-winning coffee, available now for you to join us in celebration. Thank you to our incredible community for your unwavering support!”
About Linea Caffe
”Linea launched with a simple mission, to bring joy, and to source, roast, and serve the world’s finest coffees. Now, as global warming and the climate crisis intensifies, Linea has joined the international movement to save our home planet, before it’s too late. From its inception, Linea has partnered with the the world’s most progressive organic coffee farmers, environmentally friendly producers, and importers, but we recognize that this is not enough and that every aspect of our business from running our equipment to shipping our beans needs reworking, so that we’re doing more good and less harm. We are taking action to protect our sweet earth.”
In addition to being a Certified B Corp, Linea Caffe has been a Zero Foodprint Member since 2021.
Organic Ethiopa Bire Forest Coffee
Here’s what Linea Caffe has to say about their award-winning coffee:
“Bire Forest Natural is a stellar choice for coffee lovers seeking fruit-forward sweetness and a deeply satisfying cup. Bire Forest showcases the meticulous craftsmanship of Guji Region coffee visionary, Kedir Jebril Imamu, and the quality-driven farmers he partners with. Kedir’s coffee was grown with regional heirloom varieties. For centuries, farmers would source these seeds from the natural forests, and pass them down from farmer to farmer.”
Flavor Notes: Wild forest berry pie, ripened stone fruit, honey, Mandarin orange acidity with a rich buttery finish.
How are Good Food Awards for Coffee Scored?
The winners of the Good Food Award for coffee are distinguished by “exemplary flavor – sweet, clean, well-developed body, balanced acidity and phenomenal aromatics.”
Read more about the judges, standards, and selection process on the Good Food Awards website.
About Zero Foodprint Membership
Zero Foodprint began as an effort for restaurants to reduce and eventually zero out their climate impacts. After crunching all the numbers, one thing was clear: the vast majority of the emissions inherent in a meal happen before the ingredients ever make it to the restaurant or processing facility. Food and beverage production accounts for more than 1/3 of global emissions - but it doesn’t have to be that way.
We can change the way that food is grown. By directly funding practices like compost application, managed grazing, and cover-cropping, Zero Foodprint members team up with farmers to create healthier soil, which makes more delicious, nutritious, and resilient crops while also conserving water and drawing down carbon. Members like Linea Caffe have committed a portion of sales to Zero Foodprint to make our innovative work possible.
Zero Foodprint (ZFP) is a nonprofit organization restoring the climate, one acre at a time. We believe that by regenerating soil, local food economies can play a critical role in reversing the global climate crisis. We work with food and beverage businesses, philanthropy and government to bring the next dollar to implement the next regenerative practice on the next acre. This regenerative economy benefits every person who grows food, every person who sells food, and every person on this planet who eats food.
