What Nossa Familia Coffee is known for
Augusto Carneiro founded Nossa Familia Coffee in Portland in 2004, drawing on a Brazilian family history of growing coffee in Brazil's highlands that stretches back to the 1890s.
Augusto Carneiro founded Nossa Familia Coffee in Portland in 2004, drawing on a Brazilian family history of growing coffee in Brazil's highlands that stretches back to the 1890s. The business started with no café and no roastery — just direct relationships with the farmers Carneiro's family already knew — before eventually opening its own roasting facility in Portland's Pearl District in 2012.
That order of operations, relationships first and infrastructure second, sets Nossa Familia apart from roasteries built the other way around: the roaster came nearly a decade after the sourcing model that justified building one.
Over a century of family farming history in Brazil sits behind a Portland roastery that spent its first eight years as pure sourcing relationships before it ever owned a roasting machine.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Brazilian-grown coffee sourced through direct family farming relationships dating back
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