Welcome to the Velasquez Family Coffee Website.
Velasquez Family Coffee was started by Guillermo and Cathy Velasquez to sell the high quality coffee grown by our family and friends in the mountains of Honduras. This ensures them a livable income and supports their effort to protect and enhance the precious cloud forest ecosystem where they farm. Velasquez Family Coffee has been featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and in The Brief, a publication of the University of Minnesota.
What's New
Coffee News
We've had a good summer meeting new customers at different events. Read our update and learn about a family biking from Alaska to Argentina in our September issue of our newsletter. Also check out new additions to our links page, including a cool animation of how coffee beans develop (which is what they are doing on the coffee farm right now.)
Alonzo's Bourbon Coffee now available
Recently Guillermo's brother-in-law, Alonzo, carefully selected three sacks of his Bourbon coffee for us. This heirloom variety of coffee is one of the earliest coffees cultivated and is prized by coffee buyers for its cupping quality and larger bean size. (If you'd like to learn more, check out this long article put out by the Salvadoran Coffee Council - page 2 covers history, page 6 cupping quality). We've gently roasted a sample of Alonzo's Bourbon coffee and packaged it in 12 oz bags either ground or whole bean for $8.50 a bag. It isn't available through our website shopping cart yet, so just email us if you'd like to order a bag or two.
Expanded Delivery route! We now have regular monthly customers in the following cities and suburbs in the Twin Cities Area: East Metro: St. Paul, West St. Paul, Woodbury, Oakdale, Maplewood, White Bear Lake, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, Falcon Heights, Roseville; West Metro: Minneapolis, Columbia Heights, Edina, Richfield, Golden Valley and St. Louis Park. We can mail coffee to you anywhere else.
How to Buy Velasquez Family Coffee
1) Order by Phone -- Order coffee with your credit card by calling us at 651-587-5356.
2) Order through our website -- Order coffee with your credit card on our website now. You can also email us through our web form to place your order.
3) Free Home Delivery -- If you live in St. Paul or Minneapolis (and some nearby suburbs - see list above), eliminate the shipping charge and sign up for our FREE home delivery service. (Sorry, Mail orders outside of this area are NOT eligible for free shipping.) Our next delivery dates are September 10 and October 8. You can order coffee occasionally, every other month, or every month. We can deliver to your home or your office. Sign up for our monthly subscription service (see details here) and your first 12 oz bag is FREE.
4) Monthly Mail Orders -- Even if you don't live in our free delivery area, you can save 10% by signing up for a monthly mailed subscription. (see details here)
5) Retail Outlets -- Stop by one of our few retail outlets. A complete list of our distributors is here.
Take a Virtual Tour of the Coffee Farm
Visit the Velasquez Family Coffee farm and learn more about how we grow and process our coffee through our photo slide show.
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