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| feral trade coffee El Volador |
| Coffee farmed by Álvaro Soberanes at sky high altitude of 1500m, under old growth leguminous trees which pump nitrogen back into the soil, nothing more needs to be added. The farm is called El Volador which means the Flying One. The Cerro de la Campana area near Coatepec, Veracruz provides almost perfect conditions for coffee growing, producing one of the best coffees in Mexico if not the World.
ferally traded since: 22/11/12.
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| | FER-1710 | | Finca El Volador Coatapec, Mexico to Feral Trade Bristol, UK | | dispatched 22/11/12 delivered 30/11/12 |
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| coffee El Volador shipment FER-1710
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| REMARKS: | Shipment 1 of Veracruz coffee from rookie coffee farmer Rancho El Volador, Mexico to feral trade UK, the beginning we hope and trust of a long trade relationship. |
| QTY: | 10 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Finca El Volador in Coatapec, Mexico
http:// |
| TO: |
Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org |
| SENDER: | |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 14/11/12 and 30/11/12 |
| STATUS: | delivered Feral Trade 30/11/12 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
Álvaro Soberanes
minerva cuevas
Dorota Prymek
Jaime Boyso
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Finca El Volador-Café Mandala-guesthouse Maria-Oaxaca bus station-Puebla bus station-Cholula-Mexico TAPO bus station-Mejor Vida Corporation-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-Newark Liberty airport-London Heathrow Airport-Bristol bus station--Feral Trade |
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| coffee El Volador Finca El Volador to Feral Trade
1. alvaro sobaranes coffee packs 2. feral bags checked bus station oaxaca 3. new york city transit 4. coffee hand baggage transits newark liberty airport 5. hsbc prophecy heathrow airport 6. feral bags unloaded bristol bus station 7. coffee el bueno delivered ducrow court kitchen |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1710 import purchase & freight
| | 10 x coffee El Volador 500g bag | gross | per 500g bag |
| 5kg coffee at 150 MXN per kg | £37.5 |
£3.75 |
| bus oaxaca to puebla 450 MXN courtesy arts council england | £0 |
£0.00 |
| bus to cholula 10 MXN | £0.5 |
£0.05 |
| bus cholula - mexico city 87 pesos | £4 |
£0.40 |
| metro mexico city free for disabled | £0 |
£0.00 |
| taxi mexico city 40 MXN | £2 |
£0.20 |
| metrobus to the airport 30 MXN | £1.5 |
£0.15 |
| return flight mex-ewr-lhr courtesy arts council england £804.50 | £0 |
£0.00 |
| return national express bus ticket without any £12 penalty £37 courtesy arts council england | £0 |
£0.00 |
| total | £45.5 | £4.55 |
| | Courier Report FER-1710 DISPATCHED: 22/11/12 DELIVERED: 30/11/12 kate rich Coffee picked up from Álvaro's café mandala in oaxaca, 750 pesos (£37) for 4kg: 3.5kg whole beans for export, 0.5g ground coffee for test drinking in Mexico City. Transferred to guesthouse depot a few blocks up the hill in trader's bag. 26/11 departed oaxaca by bus, via puebla for a visit to blue corn agriculture (see FER-1720). Arrived the following night in Mexico City, Minerva met me at TAPO bus terminal to help with out of control luggage, due to the new president inauguration december 1st all metrobuses from the bus station were cancelled (large gangs of police and military were also roving centre city streets), an unprecedented move, so we instead caught metro and taxi, discovering enroute that Mexico City metro offers free transport to the disabled. Stayed 1 day at Minerva's studio, repacked bags into 1 giant sugar bag with 22kg, the rolling suitcase taking another 18kg including coffee yet still fitting the definition of hand luggage.
29/11 after a quick wakeup cafe El Bueno, departed 6AM by metrobus which kindly was still operating its airport route. Minerva helped haul bags to the bus stop where we waited under a full moon, listening to roosters crowing 1 floor up in a hidden city centre chickenfarm. Onwards travel was strangely smooth. Transiting Newark airport for 7 hours with a quick citybreak in Manhattan with rolling coffee suitcase. Passed back through airport security later that evening where the agents selected suitcase for a chemical check, when compelled to explain why they cited a 'mass' in the x-ray, most likely coffee el bueno. Night flight had 3 seats to stretch out on & still managed to watch exactly all of Batman the Dark Knight by time of landing. Scooted through Heathrow customs with courtesy airport trolley, at Heathrow Central bus station argued with humourless bus agent who tried to charge me £12 for catching a 1-hour-earlier bus than stated on the ticket reservation, a hard-landing welcome to UK but luckily the driver and supervisor were operating a different kind of ecology & swiftly changed the paperwork to let me on the 11AM bus. Arrived Bristol just after 1PM, and dragged the whole 40kg luggage down laneways home to Ducrow Court. |
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| freight and handling coffee El Volador to Feral Trade sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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