Spring Blend Whole Bean Coffee

2024 Spring Blend is a blend of two coffees from Africa: a fully washed Rwanda and a natural process Ethiopia.

Chesapeake Coffee Roasters are very excited to highlight our first coffee sourced through Artisan Coffee Importers, Rwanda Ejo Heza. Ruth Ann Church founded Artisan Coffee Imports in 2009 to sustainably connect coffee farmers at origin to roasters in search of great-tasting coffee. The Kopakama cooperative in Rwanda is independent and cooperatively owned, founded in 1998. They have 1,024 members, 473 of them are women. Rwanda Ejo Heza comes from the all-female Ejo Heza group, a sub-cooperative formed in 2011 with the full support of the Kopakama cooperative. The Ejo Heza group of about 320 female producers were given their own community plot of trees and they hold their own general assembly.

The Striped Bass

This spring, we celebrate the Maryland State Fish, the Striped Bass, also known as the Rockfish in Maryland. The name 'Rockfish' is a testament to the fish's unique hunting behavior above the Chesapeake Bay's rocky oyster beds. The Chesapeake Bay plays a crucial role as a spawning ground for the Atlantic Ocean's striped bass, with schools of world-class striped bass flooding the estuary each spring. While the spring spawning season is a sight to behold, it's important to note that Rockfish are not just seasonal visitors but year-round residents of the Chesapeake Bay.