Heirloom Coffee Roasters is proud to provide an entire lineup of ROC™ certified regeneratively farmed coffees!
At Heirloom Coffee Roasters, our mission is to roast the most ethically sourced coffees around, and regeneratively grown coffee is the most sustainable coffee grown in the world. We're proud to be an official partner of the Regenerative Organic Alliance™.
Heirloom is not only pioneering sustainability in coffee, but we’re also changing the conversation around taste. After years of testing and formulation, Heirloom created a unique roasting method known as the Culinary Roast™.
Within the first year of launching our brand, Heirloom received five Golden Bean awards for taste and quality and won the prestigious Good Food Award, emerging victorious against 1,700 coffees in a blind tasting.
Heirloom continues to roast its exceptional coffee in a state-of-the-art roastery in Oakland, CA, leading the way in the regenerative coffee movement.
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The short answer: This product made it to our curated list because it has achieved certification through well-established and respected organizations with its ingredients sourced from regenerative agriculture. FYI: We are currently establishing a way to list non-certified products with transparency about the farm's regenerative practices.
ON A MISSION TO SAVE COFFEE
Heirloom Coffee is the first coffee brand to only roast coffees that are cultivated using 100% regenerative farming techniques. A practice that will protect and restore coffee-growing regions for generations.
By 2050, 60% of the world’s coffee-growing regions may be unable to produce coffee. 47% of specialty coffee is grown within these regions. Over-farming, soil degradation, and deforestation will make it impossible to grow the coffee varietals that we love and depend on.
To avoid this catastrophe, the adoption of regenerative agriculture is key to preserving specialty coffee for generations to come.
Regenerative coffee farming practices restore soil health by rebuilding organic material and stop erosion by ensuring biodiversity, mixed crops, and crop rotation. It supports social fairness by ensuring fair pay for farmers, freedom from forced association, and creating a culture around transparency and accountability.
Regenerative Organic Certified® is a revolutionary new certification for food, apparel, and personal care ingredients. Regenerative Organic Certified® farms and products meet the highest standards in the world for soil health, animal welfare, and farmworker fairness.
With regenerative organic agriculture, we can rehabilitate soil, respect animal welfare, and improve the lives of farmers. We can sequester carbon, build healthier communities, and reap more nutritious and abundant yields.
In practice, regenerative organic agriculture can look like cover cropping, crop rotation, low- to no-till, compost, and zero use of persistent chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
All Regenerative Organic Certified® products and farms must also meet the requirements of the USDA Organic Certification.
The USDA organic regulations describe organic agriculture as the application of a set of cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that support the cycling of on-farm resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. These include maintaining or enhancing soil and water quality; conserving wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife; and avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, and genetic engineering.
Organic producers use natural processes and materials when developing farming systems—these contribute to soil, crop, and livestock nutrition, pest and weed management, attainment of production goals, and conservation of biological diversity.
When you see our Fair Trade Certified label on a product, you can trust that it was made according to rigorous standards that protect the livelihoods of farmers, fishers, and other producer communities and the environment.
We want to make sure that all products listed here align with our community's values. We do our best, but need help from you if you feel that there is something that we should be aware of about their regen ag practices, sources, supply chains, etc.
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