Colombia Manos Juntas Micromill

Manos Juntas is a micro-mill in Sotara area of Colombia's Cauca region, operated and managed by Banexport. The entire concept of this micro-mill is based on simplifying tasks and responsibilities.

This program has the benefit of paying producers upfront for their coffee, where typically they have to wait 35 to 40 days for coffee to dry before selling it. Producers deliver and sell coffee in cherry form by total weight. The riper the cherry, the heavier it is. This encourages better harvest practice that directly correlates to higher quality.

Producers involved are from surrounding farms. This means they need only to travel a short distance to deliver coffee. Coffee infrastructure can be very expensive to purchase and maintain. With this model, farmers can forgo all of this hassle and focus on maintaining healthy trees.

Ecuador Finca El Cafetal

Henry Prado and Ana Jiménez own Finca El Cafetal which is a 13 hectare farm that has 7 hectares planted in coffee. They have planted roughly 14,000 coffee trees.  

Henry and Ana utilise a wet fermentation for 35-48 hours then dry their coffee on raised African beds for 28-35 days. They produce both washed and natural coffees, this micro-lot is a Natural. They produce roughly 6500 kgs of coffee annually. 

Rising costs for fertilisers and other inputs are a huge challenge right now. They are investigating new ways to create fertilisers on their farm for future harvests.

We roast our coffee beans here in store.

Try our House Blend Easy Street, or one of our rotating Single Origins.

Then pick out a bag of coffee beans to take and enjoy at home.

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