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Before there was a roastery, there was a folding table.
Before there was a brand, there was a blessing.

My mother priced her work herself. Looked the buyer in the eye when the cash changed hands. No middleman, no platform taking a cut. They called it informal. We call it the prototype.

The flea market. The basket aisle at the church bake sale. The brother selling oils from the trunk. That table built Black wealth a hundred years before anybody had an app for it.

Friday we put it on two shirts.

Degentrify Coffee is the politic out loud. The shirt you wear into the cafe pricing your culture at a cup missing the soul.

Gifts from the Heart is the practice underneath it. A basket on the chest. And on the back, a blessing half Oromo, half Memphis:

May your hood lack no coffee nor the peace of God.
The roastery was never the goal. It’s just the table getting bigger.

Pull up to Side Hustle Flea Market for a special love print of the blessing.

Available online for 72 hours only.
$35 each. $60 for the pair.
Link in bio. ☕🧺

Would you rock? Tryna see sum 👀

Turns out all our mothers made baskets. Before the internet. Before YouTube University. Before ChatGPT and digital consultants. There were mothers making a way out of rivers of no way. 🧺

In Dzobego, Ghana 🇬🇭, that’s a coffee harvest in those baskets. Same basket your grandmother carried at the flea market. Same basket the Hadha Siqqee carries in the Guji Zone.

On the road into the village, the flower stands stretch for yards. Handmade, wrapped with care, lined up where everybody passes. Nobody rented a storefront. The product is the marketing. The road is the shelf.

Nobody taught the others. We’ve all been running the same business. 🧺☕️

Tables set up on corners for the holidays. Whole family packed in, sweating at the flea market.

That’s how the next generation of entrepreneurs got made.

Supply chains were being remembered before the coffee economists ever warned us the harvests were running out. The future isn’t being created. It’s being remembered. The mother land was never interrupted, because the women never stopped. 🖤☕️

This Saturday we’re bringing it back. Side Hustle Flea, live at Cxffeeblack HQ. Comment if you pulling up or you wanna vend. We got us. ✊🏾

Comment BASKET if you pulling up to the FLEA family. 🏡

We’ve always had us. And our mothers have always had the space route.

Community and accountability through family innovation has been the hustle holiday set ups on the corners before church.
And we will continue holy hustle to until we make it wholly Home.

All community vendors welcome family. Especially if you selling dashikis or knock off jordans 💫

Neighbors vend for free.

Only 5 spots remaining.

Dj sets by and IAMSHYSPEAKS

Car detailing available by my neighbor Mr. D

Welcome back home family 🏡☕️

Open 7:30-4 all week.