Stories

This coffee was produced by indigenous growers from Aponte, Narino who are members of La Cooperat...

The Worka Cooperative in Worka operates the Halo Fafate Washing Station in Yirgacheffe, which ser...

Rio Pardo farm is owned by Caio Junqueira, a sixth-generation producer who has been focused on sp...

Francisco Lorenzo Pablo is a member of the smallholder's association called ASPROCDEGUA, and he o...

Eduardo Navarro Jiminez and his brother Juan Carlos Navarro Ceciliano share a 100-year family his...

Rosendo Recinos Flores has a 1.5-hectare farm located in Chalatenango. He hand-picks ripe cherry ...

Fazenda Sertão is an 850-hectare farm with 330 hectares planted in coffee of several varieties, i...

Owner Ahadu Woubhset was a founding member of the executive team at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, he left the ECX and decided to invest in a farm himself in order to produce entirely specialty coffee. He found the perfect spot in the famous Kaffa Zone, which is considered the absolute birthplace of Arabica coffee, and decided to start up an operation that aimed to preserve the natural beauty of the area, support the local community, and of course produce fantastic coffees.

There are currently eight producers participating in the Manos Juntas program, each one a smallholder with 1–2 hectares of coffee. The varieties in this lot are Colombia, Castillo, and Colombia F6.

Maria Cenaida Flor has been producing coffee for 15 years and she considers it a family enterprise.

Kariaini Coffee Factory is operated by the Mwirua Farmers Cooperative Society
(F.C.S.) and was founded in the 1960s.

Sitio Capim Seco is owned and operated by Rafael Dias Pereira, who comes from a long line of coff...

Oscar and Francisca Chacón are third-generation coffee producers. The couple is committed to quality and innovation, and were among the very first farmers in Costa Rica to produce Honey and Natural processed specialty coffee.

Carlos Mauricio Lemus Landaverde is a young producer who inherited his father’s 4 hectare farm af...

Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200smallholder produc...

Isabel Correa Paz owns La Mandarina, a 6 hectare farm with 5 hectares of coffee planted primarily with Caturra and Pache varieties but some others mixed in as well.

Aricha is about 8 kilometers from the center of Yirgacheffe Town.
The soils in this region are red-brown clay soil, about 1.5 meters deep.

This coffee is the initiative of Moses Venapo, an entrepreneurial producer in the Eastern Highlands, who wanted to offer local smallholders better access to higher market prices as well as a higher traceability option.

Oscar and Francisca Chacón are third-generation coffee producers, with coffee in their hearts and souls. The couple is committed to quality and innovation, and were among the very first farmers in Costa Rica to produce Honey and Natural processed specialty coffee.