"Coffee is People" - Finca la Esperanza
Hesitant to move as if it would break the beauty of the moment, I stood speechless and still on the rooftop terrace of the Villatoro's home at the Finca la Esperanza coffee farm in Hoja Blanca, Gua...
Tips for a Cause, Finca La Esperanza
No penny put in our tip jar goes to waste. But, we don’t ever keep them for ourselves - we give them to worthy causes. For example, our tips from the past 12 months have been going to Finca La Espe...
Helping Our Brew To Do More Good
Have you brewed a cup of our Gishubi Hill-Burundi coffee yet? Known as the Cinderella of coffee (because its hidden, misused, misunderstood, and neglected), Josh Lindstrom, roaster at Fika, describ...
Coffee, Patron Saint of Lost Things
Fika Coffee, the brick and mortar version, has been up and running for a few solid months now. We’ve seen a lot of great folks walk through our doors, some familiar and some brand new, all welcom...
Springtime in the great north woods of Minnesota means a lot of things. It mostly means erratic weather patterns (40 degrees and sunny one day, 10 degrees and 8 inches of snow the next). But it a...
The Story Behind the Red-winged Blackbird
A few months ago, we wrote a blog post about one of our most commonly asked questions: what’s the best way to brew coffee? This month, we’d like to tackle another frequently asked Fika question: Wh...