We provide great coffee at a reasonable price.We hands-down pay more for our art than any other coffee company out there.We pay our staff a living wage.No rhetoric, just Rhetoric Coffee: We don't smiley-glad-hand you a story about our unique connection to farmers and how have changed their lives through direct trade. If that smoke and mirrors byline touted by the majority of the industry were remotely true farmers wouldn't be on the verge of bankruptcy through almost every growing region. Which they are.What we do:We pay around $3 - $7 per pound for our green and select the best of what we can find out there in that price range. Period.We are a tiny company, and until we grow larger our area of effect is focused on supporting our staff, the community at our farmer's markets and our artist-partners.