Janie and Tea Cake

On February 5 2025 we'll ship our first bags of this flagship blend. Help our black-owned business meet our fundraising goal and we'll thank you with a subscription to your new favorite coffee and make you part of an elite group of insiders and early adopters that get branded merch and big perks!

A blend of light and medium roasted single origin fair trade coffees from small family farms in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Peru.

Flavor notes: milk chocolate, blueberry, almond 

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” -Their Eyes Were Watching God, a Florida novel by the legendary Florida writer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston. The only writer of the Harlem Renaissance hailing from Florida, Zora spent much of her life in Jacksonville and Saint Augustine. This coffee blend is a tribute to her.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora tells a love story about Janie and her younger lover, Tea Cake. It's also a love story to her community in Eatonville, Florida.

We developed this blend of medium and light roasted coffees to tell a similar story. The medium roasted Ethiopian and Tanzanian coffees represent Hurston’s depiction of the joyful love her characters share with the sweet and fruity flavors of these coffees. These also connote the power of her writing about African impacts on American culture. The lightly roasted coffee that completes this blend is from the La Florida estate in Peru, which brings notes of sweet pastry.

This coffee is our love story to Zora. Responsibly sourced and sustainably produced green coffees from small family farms in Africa and South America to be individually roasted and hand-blended in Jacksonville.