In Costa Rica's Central Valley, Hacienda Sonora sits at the foot of the active Poás Volcano. On this 100-hectare farm, 65 hectares are dedicated to shade coffee, 10 hectares to sugarcane and 25 hectares are wild forest reserve. Alberto Guardia began growing coffee at Hacienda Sonora 45 years ago. His read more
UPDATE: Shantawene has won 7th place (from more than 1,400 entries) in the 2020 Cup of Excellence in Ethiopia! In 2006, brothers Asefa and Mulugeta Dukamo founded Daye Bensa, a coffee grower and exporter in Ethiopia. Daye Bensa exports coffee from its farm, in the Shantawene Village, as well as read more
In the Guji Zone of the Shakiso District, Kayon Mountain Farm rises from 1,900 to 2,200 meters. The farm grows heirloom Typica trees under organic, EU NOP & JAS, and Café Practice certifications. They are also working toward certification in Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance. After harvest, cherries are machine read more
Siltepec is located in the center of Chiapas, and Siltepec El Jaguar comes from the high-altitude area of the Sierra Madre, bordering the biosphere reserve El Trifuno, which is the habitat of an Endemic Bird Area, “El Quetzal.” This ecological region represents 30 percent of the flora in all of read more
Colombia Huila El Bombo Organic comes from the members of the Asobombo producer association — 95 producers from the villages of Laguna del Bombo, La Laguna, El Paraíso, Alto Planes, Laguna Verde and Laguna Chiquita, in Huila. They work as a small, close team to market their coffees, and everyone read more
Descafecol is the only decaffeination plant in the Andean region of Colombia. The plant relies entirely on the pure water from the Navado el Ruis (a snow-capped volcano on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima) and natural ethyl acetate from sugar cane plants in Palmira, Colombia. Ethyl read more
Peru APROCCURMA Fairtrade Organic comes to us from producer-members of APROCCURMA (Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros de la Cuenca del Rio Marañon). APROCCURMA was formed in 2012 with the goal of improving local producers' quality of life. On family-owned farms in the province of Rodrigues de Mendoza, in Peru's Amazonia region, read more
Coffee has been cultivated in Iyula villages since 1938, and in 1952 the Iyula Agricultural Marketing Cooperative and Society (AMCOS) was formed—though under a different legal form that was owned by the Coffee Authority of Tanzania (CAT). It 1981 it took on its current AMCOS status, and over the last read more
Flor de Cafe is an agricultural and services cooperative founded in 1996, currently with more than 1,500 members. Coffee from Flor de Cafe is grown to the standards implemented by the cooperative and goes through a quality inspection at the collection stage to make ensure that the vehicle used to read more
Finca Palmichal is high on the western side of the Central Andes mountain range, near the municipality of Genova, in the department of Quindío. This region went through violent and difficult times during the peak of the guerrilla expansion in the country. But now, after the negotiation between the government read more
