great coffee, grown with integrity,
roasted with love.

We're Rachel and Simon. Rachel grew up on a Derbyshire dairy farm and has spent twenty years working on Fairtrade supply chains with smallholder coffee, fruit and nut producers across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Simon spent twenty years as a primary school teacher before swapping the classroom for a lorry cab.

In 2008 we set off for Latin America and ended up in El Sontule, a coffee-growing village in the mountains of northern Nicaragua. We lived with a coffee-growing family, harvested coffee, and became part of a community that left a deep mark on us. We came home in 2010 carrying that village's spirit of cooperation, care for the land and pride in the work.

In early 2025 we took our four children back to Nicaragua for four months. We returned with a clearer plan: a coffee roastery and workshop space on our family farm, built on the same values we'd seen lived out in El Sontule.

We've spent twenty years believing that coffee can be grown, traded and enjoyed in a way that's good for everyone it touches. Farm Roots is us finally doing something about it.

- Rachel & Simon