MORE ABOUT MIKE

Mike Ferguson has held a variety of marketing and communications jobs in the coffee industry for 25 years and is currently Chief Storyteller at Covoya Specialty Coffee, an importer with offices in the Thurber Building in downtown Providence. His writing has appeared in numerous coffee trade publications over the years, including Sprudge.com, where you can find recent articles Bada Boom Bada Bust the History of Coffee Prices, Remembering Erna Knutsen, Coffee’s Feminist Pioneer, and The Mystery and Majesty of Coffee Milk. Personal passion projects include his Instagram account PVD Now and Then, and his website FabledObituaries.rip. A Californian most of his life, he moved to Providence in 2019 where he and his family happily occupy the converted attic of a Queen Anne in the shadow of the armory on the city’s west end.

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Mike has been writing about the coffee industry for over two decades. Check out some of his past work at the links below:

Roast Magazine

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Sprudge

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