SnoValley Coffee Company in Snoqualmie hosts a community event Saturday on Snoqualmie Ridge. The event includes free coffee tastings from 9 to 11 a.m., children’s activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and live music from 4 to 7 p.m.

The event celebrates the cafe’s partnership with the Bothell-based Quest Coffee Company to launch a farm-to-cup coffee experience. The cafe uses only an heirloom varietal coffee been, Munda Novo, sourced directly from a century-old estate in Brazil, through Quest. The estate focuses on sustainable farming and doesn’t use irrigation, leading to dense flavor-packed beans, hand-picked, sun-dried and hand-sorted.

Farmer Higino Magrinelli did not think it was possible for his sustainably grown, heirloom varietal coffee beans to be exported to America in 2011, but a partnership with Quest Coffee led to his first export of coffee beans last fall.  Despite very little experience in the coffee industry, the Quest family made its mission to directly trade and profit share with Magrinelli and other small farmers growing heirloom varietals, not only to bring this quality coffee to America, but to improve the lives of farmers and their communities.

“It’s exciting knowing that SnoValley Coffee is not only able to offer an outstanding quality bean to our customers, but also build a partnership with a company like Quest Coffee. We value enriching the lives of everyone involved, from the person picking the coffee to those who drink it,” said Jacqui Fetherolf, owner of SnoValley Coffee.