Sustainable Coffee Sourcing at Blue Bottle
Embedding resilience within our coffee supply
Photo credit: Enveritas
Blue Bottle's multiyear sustainability strategy has a dual focus: scaling regenerative agriculture within our coffee supply, and elevating coffee producer innovation on our menu. Both extend Blue Bottle's focus on incentivizing quality improvement while further supporting producers managing a changing climate and introducing new sensory experiences for guests.
Blue Bottle has long offered price premiums to coffee producers based on quality, consistently paid above market price, and supported community projects at origin—from agronomy programs to farmworker support initiatives. Blue Bottle also participates in industry initiatives driving sustainable coffee production beyond our value chain.
In 2020, we adopted a more data-driven approach to sustainable sourcing. Blue Bottle partnered with Enveritas, a nonprofit that verifies farm conditions against environmental, social, and economic sustainability standards, to commission reports in regions or supply streams where we source coffee. The reports were shared with producers as a foundation for joint learning and continuous improvement opportunities.
Between 2023 and 2025, Blue Bottle implemented farmer support projects responding to measured risk, achieving Enveritas's Responsibly Sourced mark by investing in projects ranging from clean water access in Asia to women-run VSLAs in Africa and farmer field schools in Latin America.
Responsive to the emerging trends in our data, in 2024 we developed a multiyear regenerative agriculture transition strategy with four long-term suppliers who produce more than a third of our coffee and account for more than half of our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coffee. These groups represent a significant opportunity to reduce Blue Bottle's overall GHG emissions while centering improvements to producer livelihoods.
After 2025, Blue Bottle pivoted from Enveritas Responsibly Sourced verification to direct investment in these regenerative agriculture transitions while continuing to draw data from Enveritas audits. In 2026, Blue Bottle launched its first pilot in Peru and began planning in Ethiopia to work toward improved soil health, producer living incomes, and reduced GHGs. As we monitor progress and measure results, Blue Bottle will share learnings and plans to scale implementation across our value chain.