Golden Fork Nominee! El Placer ‘Yellow Fruits’ scooped a 3-star award earlier this month, and it has now been announced that it was one of the highest scoring products, meaning Dark Woods Coffee is now in the running to win a Great Taste Golden Fork: the highest accolades in the food and drink world.

Here at Dark Woods, we have been getting very excited about compost – yes, you read it right. Let me explain. Everyone knows what composting is – chucking garden waste, food scraps, cardboard, and the like, into a container or pile at the end of the garden and hoping that, eventually, it turns into soil.

Welcome to our B Corp Report for 2021/22. This was our second year as a certified B Corp, and our second Annual Report. In this report, we update progress on some of the work we started (and reported on) last year and highlight some of our plans for 2023 and beyond.

That's a bold claim; but, the outstanding work of the women farmers in Peru, supported by Cafe Femenino, means that it has become a reality. As part of B-Corp Month / International Women's Day, we recognise their amazing achievements over the last nineteen years and highlight why we all need to keep supporting their efforts.

After offering the public a sneaky peek at Manchester Coffee Festival back in November last year, we are proud to announce the official launch of our Blue Tin “Reserve Series”.

Our Head of Training and Customer Support Tom on how changes to our training programme can support you even better in 2022.

From everyone here at Dark Woods, we’d like to wish you all a safe and enjoyable Christmas and New Year, and we’ll see you again in 2022!

In a new series of articles, we focus on some of the producers who have helped us to achieve success in the Great Taste Awards for another year. This time, we exploring our relationship with our friend Paul and his team at Mikava in Colombia.

The 2021 Great Taste Awards results were announced this week and Dark Woods Coffee has won an astonishing thirteen awards in the Guild of Fine Food's annual speciality food and drink competition.

That's a bold claim; but, the outstanding work of the women farmers in Peru, supported by Cafe Femenino, means that it has become a reality. This International Women's Day, we recognise their amazing achievements over the last 16 years and highlight why we all need to keep supporting their efforts.

Dark Woods Coffee are proud to become one of the first coffee roasters to be BCorp Certified.

A Quick Guide to our 2020 Cafe Days