It started with one bean.

Our story begins with a rare heritage bean, Barahona Typica, grown on Dominican mountain slopes since 1805. One taste and we knew it was worth sharing, and a few of us became the first to bring it into Canada. 

That bean became the foundation of Original Source Collective: a small team in the US and the Dominican Republic, connected to every step from farm to roaster to your cup.

CHRISTIAN - MASTER ROASTER, TAMBORIL, DR

Christian roasts every batch of OSC coffee, with a roaster he built by hand, in a transformed former cigar factory in Tamboril, Dominican Republic.

Christian has synesthesia: He reads each bean by sight, smell, and sound, and color. When a roast hits the right point, a spectrum unfolds in his mind's eye, and the bean is done. 

His work is the reason our coffees taste the way they do. 

Heritage 1805's smooth chocolate, Cocoa Canuco's cacao depth, Sagrada Harvest's tea-like clarity — all of it comes through his hands, his ear, and his eye for color.

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THE FARMERS

  • Three people working in a greenhouse with plants in the foreground

    SEÑORA ALEXANDRA

    Finca Los Bolos · Barahona Mountains, Dominican Republic


    One of the Dominican Republic's pioneering female coffee farmers. Her family has preserved the country's original Typica lineage for generations — the same trees their ancestors planted in 1805 are still bearing fruit today.


    Behind: Heritage 1805

  • Man harvesting coffee cherries in a coffee plantation

    THE CORDILLERA MOUNTAIN GROWERS

    Cordillera Mountains, Dominican Republic

    Keepers of canuco mounding, an Indigenous Taíno technique that nourishes the roots and enriches the soil. They grow the cacao that gets folded into Cocoa Canuco after roasting.

    Behind: Cocoa Canuco

  • THE COOPCHEBI COOPERATIVE

    Chanchamayo Province, Peru

    140+ Yanesha and Asháninka families working collectively in the Peruvian Amazon, growing award winning coffee. Together they preserve ancestral farming practices, fund education, and protect 94% of their forested land from development.

    Behind: Sagrada Harvest Gesha

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Original Source Collective came together around a shared belief: coffee should mean something. Not just where it's grown or how it tastes, but what it supports, what it preserves, and what it connects.

We source stories first, then the coffee. We don't start with trends or flavor profiles — we start with origin, with heritage, with practices that endure because they work for the land and the people who steward it.

Giving back isn't an add-on. Samana Smiles, food banks, rainforest preservation — these aren't abstract commitments. They're personal, and they're how the Collective gives back to the communities and ecosystems that make this work possible.

When you choose Original Source Collective, you choose to participate in a slower, more thoughtful way of drinking coffee. One that values origin over urgency, quality over quantity, and connection over convenience.

This is coffee for people who care. Welcome to the Collective.

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PARTNERS

AYA
OSC PARTNER · CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

A morning ritual with impact. Aya's cycle-phase coffee guide is where many drinkers meet OSC for the first time.