Since our founding in 1996, Lionheart has sourced coffee directly from farmers, while building sustainable relationships with them and the communities they support. For nearly 30 years, we’ve worked to create lasting connections extending from our local community to our coffee farmers. These connections are the heart of our business.

Starting with our first direct trade shipment from La Hilda Estate in Costa Rica, and our first project in 1999 with Finca El Paternal in Guatemala – it was clear that our customers valued the connection between our coffee farming communities and what’s in their morning cup. Since then, we’ve continued to invest in our relationships, learning firsthand from our coffee producers about their needs and partnering together to make improvements. These long-standing relationships have laid a foundation that continues to support our projects at origin and beyond to this day.