Within the past decade, North Tahoe has become home to four separate coffee entrepreneurs. In the post-Starbucks era, younger generations have transformed into the “coffee-shop generation” with more and more people seeking out unique, single-origin coffee to boost their morning rather than the sugary lattes of coffee-shop chains.

Your morning coffee connects you to millions of women coffee farmers across the world. While these women have always played a vital role in coffee production, they weren’t recognized or directly compensated for their work. In 2004, a few of these women decided to change this by co-founding Café Femenino alongside Organic Products Trading Company.