Lost Lakes Coffee Roasters

Field Notes · Harvest Calendar

A Field Guide to Seasonal Coffee Sourcing

From cherry harvest at origin to fresh-crop green coffee ready for the roaster.

Harvesting · cherries being picked at origin

Fresh crop · prime green-coffee buying / roasting window

January

Harvesting

Ethiopia · Kenya · Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica · Mexico · Nicaragua

Fresh Crop

Colombia · Sumatra / Indonesia

February

Harvesting

Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica · Mexico · Nicaragua · El Salvador

Fresh Crop

Kenya · Colombia · Mexico

March

Harvesting

Colombia · Guatemala · Honduras · Rwanda · Burundi

Fresh Crop

Kenya · Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica

April

Harvesting

Colombia · Rwanda · Burundi · Brazil

Fresh Crop

Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica · Nicaragua · El Salvador

May

Harvesting

Colombia · Brazil · Peru · Rwanda · Burundi

Fresh Crop

Ethiopia · Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica · Nicaragua

June

Harvesting

Brazil · Peru · Colombia · Rwanda · Burundi

Fresh Crop

Ethiopia · Colombia · Central America

July

Harvesting

Brazil · Peru · Rwanda · Burundi

Fresh Crop

Ethiopia · Colombia · early Brazil

August

Harvesting

Brazil · Peru · Bolivia

Fresh Crop

Brazil · Peru · Colombia

September

Harvesting

Brazil · Peru

Fresh Crop

Brazil · Peru · Rwanda · Burundi

October

Harvesting

Ethiopia · Kenya · Colombia · early Central America

Fresh Crop

Brazil · Peru · Rwanda · Burundi · Colombia

November

Harvesting

Ethiopia · Kenya · Colombia · Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Nicaragua

Fresh Crop

Brazil · Peru · Colombia

December

Harvesting

Ethiopia · Kenya · Guatemala · Honduras · Costa Rica · Mexico · Nicaragua

Fresh Crop

Colombia · Sumatra / Indonesia

Seasonality is approximate. Elevation, microclimate, processing time and ocean freight can move individual lots several weeks in either direction. Colombia and Indonesia can produce across unusually broad windows.

Small Batch · Fair Trade · Single Origin Coffee