The standard — and how we keep it
Approved guides
Every session teaches from an approved facilitator guide in the program library — the same guide the students' handouts come from. Instructors bring their craft; the guide holds the curriculum, so what's taught is consistent, ethical, and auditable by our institutional partners.
A visible record
Your profile carries what you've taught and what's ahead. Sessions move scheduled → ready → delivered → closed, and the record — attendance, completion, recordings — is data the program reports on, not paperwork you chase.
Support, not surveillance
Periodic observation, learner feedback, and content review run as a coaching cycle. The point is a stronger class next time — and a program our partners can stand behind.
Your instructor hub is private
Every instructor works from their own private hub — your classes, your students, your guides, your class record, and what's ahead live in your account, not on a public page. Sign in and your hub is waiting on your account home.
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Barista Instructor Track
Kyle Martin — Lead Barista Instructor
Teaches: Foundations of Specialty Coffee ·
Brewing Mastery (Intermediate) · Home Barista Intensive ·
Guided Diaspora Tasting. Also leads Black Coffee Club
sessions. His sessions are experiences, not certification
courses — hands-on, friendly, and everybody leaves brewing
better coffee.
Up next: Brewing Mastery — Monday, October
26, 6:00–8:00 PM.
Profiles live with their people
An instructor's full profile — their library, their class history, their upcoming sessions — lives in their own account, and it is theirs. What appears here is the public introduction: who teaches, what they teach, and what's next. On Farm2Chef, members' identities stay protected — people see each other's profiles when they've connected as friends, the way neighbors meet on a garden crawl and choose to stay in touch.
Baristas: source your coffee here, too
A barista profile on this platform isn't only for teaching. You can source coffee through the platform — farmer-direct lots from the same sourcing family we work with, matched locally by your ZIP: roasting and pickup partners near you, sample kits for instructors, small lots for home baristas, recurring supply for working baristas and cafés. The farm is named, the price stays fair in every direction, and sourcing members see new lots at platform cuppings first.
You're on the sourcing list.
A confirmation email is on its way. When partner lots open near your ZIP, you hear about them first.
The onboarding path
Intake
Two minutes, below: who you are and what you teach. Your profile starts here.
Orientation + standards
You get your login, the guide library, and the standards acknowledgment — how we teach, and why.
Practice + calibration
A practice delivery and a calibration pass with the lead instructor before your first solo session.
Teach, with backup
Before every class: a reminder with your session, your guide, and your prep checklist. After: closeout in one pass.
Onboard as an instructor
Tell us who you are and what you teach. Your confirmation email lays out the next steps.
You're on the instructor roster.
Thank you — a confirmation email is on its way with the onboarding path. Your profile starts from this intake.
You're already on the roster.
An instructor intake for that email is already in — no need to submit twice.