Last year we set out on trying to write chapter two of our story. A narrative which takes us away from artisan coffee company and into a coffee brand. During this process, my personal interest surrounding recycling and carbon emissions grew and I felt it important to integrate the two. We decided that as an SME, we would try to become carbon neutral by the end of 2022. There is a lot more to this story, but the short version is…‘we are learning a lot!’   When I first started roasting coffee, I never thought it would become a business....

I started drinking coffee around the age of 18. Why? Because my friends did and I didn't want to order a hot chocolate when we went to a cafe, obviously. From here I quickly started to develop a taste for coffee and increased my consumption at home with a cafetiere. Using the cafetiere was my introduction to fresh coffee. I would try different varieties, different strengths, different roasts but all bought from the supermarket. Now, I'm not saying that all supermarket coffee is bad...but if you go back 10+ years to when I was buying it, it definitely wasn't the...