Specialty coffee—celebrated, outstanding coffee—doesn’t happen quickly or easily. It’s the result of sustained labors and investments, continual learning and persistence.
We’re earnest in our mission to be responsible participants in the coffee supply chain and to use our relationships, expansive reach and decades of experience to support and promote a prosperous and long-lasting future for coffee.
We want you to tell your story with our coffee, however we also want to tell you the stories of our coffees. Every “project coffee” has a story to tell. And whether it’s the labor of individuals, cooperatives, associations or organizations - from around the world - we couldn’t be happier to support and share their stories with you.
We believe coffee is the cornerstone of Social Sustainability. That means protecting our PEOPLE + PLANET because the way we treat one another has just as much impact on the future of the planet as what we do to the environment. We advocate for and invest in the people who make coffee special. Safe and thriving coffee communities are the best possible stewards of their incredible environments. When we invest in people, we know we’re investing in a healthy future for coffee and a healthier planet for us all.
Exceptional coffee is cultivated with time, care, and commitment. It all begins at the origin and building a strong foundation, from the la tierra up, with our partners - the best producers. We sip with them. We get to know them, their families, and their communities. We see for ourselves how our connection to creating linked prosperity is benefiting their communities, being reinvested back into the farms and families.
Our team spends boots (...and sometimes flip-flops) on the ground on "our" fincas around the world. We’re discussing the latest harvest, tasting, roasting, and working with our partners to find new ways to deliver a better crop than the season before. For us, this is the ultimate win-win. Improving crops equates to higher profits, which means greater investment in their communities. It means we can continue to enjoy the highest quality coffee possible for us and our customers. We see our coffee being grown sustainably, with the future in mind, and positively impacting coffee farmers' livelihoods. This way of business will always be a non-negotiable for us.
In 2020, we launched the SOMOS One Project, a coffee collective and charitable GIVING CIRCLE committed to funding the work of IDENTITY, HUMANITY, and EQUITY-based movements. We are a proud contributor to Street Safe NM, Safe Roots Foundation, the Trevor Project, Navajo Water Project, Nurse-Family Partnership, Crisis Text Line, For the Love of Bees, RIP Medical Debt, and RAICES. We also support programs that promote the better growing practices leading to the long-term financial and environmental health of coffee farms and communities.
We are Farmers + Futurists.
We are Scientists + Naturalists
We are Medical Doctors + Curanderas
We are Artists + Storytellers.
We are Exploring + Experimenting
We are Cultivating + Nurturing
a Regenerative + Inclusive...
Map of Values.
Theory of Change.
Model of Movements.
We are Co-Creating + Amplifying
Connection to + Representation in
the products we choose + use everyday.
We are on a Mission
for
Humanity.
Identity.
Equity.
from Seed to Soul.
Hola! We are Los Roberts (Vanessa, Lance, AK and ZeZe), the founding family of SOMOS. We are passionate about farming and plant-powered products for improving our collective physical and mental health. We are caregivers to those who arrived before us, and committed to being good ancestors and relatives. We are inspired by the collaborative creativity in our communities - online and around the world from Seed to Soul.
As farmers, we've cultivated plant-based balance since 1996 in the US, Argentina, and Brazil. Our mission is to cultivate a field of infinite possibility where SOMOS becomes a platform for amplifying voices for cultural, systemic, and interconnected change through products as positive propaganda. #somosunidos
WE ARE a farmer-owned, co-conspired brand committed to science + guided by nature to craft the safest, most impactful products from Seed to Soul.
WE ARE supported by a diverse collective of people who crave connection to and representation in the products they choose, use, and value every day.
WE ARE a cultural products company dedicated to social, environmental, and political justice. WE ARE committed to amplifying the works and voices of emerging artists, athletes, and activists.
WE ARE guided by compassion to make the world a better place via cultivated wellness, leveraged privilege, and linked prosperity.
No Human is Illegal. Love is Love. Science is Real. Womxn's Rights are Human Rights. Black Lives Matter. Trans and Two-Spirit Lives Matter.
Femme-Owned Enterprise is Good for Everyone. We’re Not Here for Ableism. Diet Culture Sucks. Water is Life and Kindness is Everything.
We are committed to anti-racism and anti-oppression in all that we do and we pledge to work against it in all its forms:
individual, interpersonal, and institutional.
Our work is practiced on the Traditional, Ancestral, Unceded, and Shared homelands of the Pueblo peoples
and Traditional, Ancestral, Unceded, and Shared homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations
- all who have been inhabitants of these lands since time immemorial.
We support movements and action towards Land Rematriation.