Camino with Daniel Ehreiser

Daniel is a former policy communicator turned coffee farmer whose work lives at the intersection of land, community, and a really good cup of coffee. After more than a decade in Washington, DC, working in policy and political communications, he traded in his suit and tie for boots and moved to Brazil to restore a historic farm in the Campo das Vertentes region of Minas Gerais.

In 2020, he founded Allelo Coffee to connect that work in Brazil with coffee drinkers abroad. Today, you can find him behind the bar at Allelo Coffeehouse in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood, serving coffees grown in the very region where he spends much of the year farming. The shop is both a neighborhood gathering space and a living bridge between farm and city.

His path is less about geography than curiosity: always learning, forming partnerships, listening to common sense (and unconventional wisdom), and getting his hands and feet dirty along the way.

His CreativeMornings talk draws on the lessons of restoring land, building a coffee business across continents, and what happens when you choose to start something slow, collaborative, and rooted in place.