In 2016, six small coffee groups came together to form the Federación de Sociedades Cooperativas Cafetaleras de la Sierra Madre FC de RL (FEDESI). Their hope in coming together was to improve their access to new markets for production, financing and government support. The producers are from Escuintla, Huixtla, Motozintla read more
Producer organization Café Prevenir was founded in 2002, with the goal of marketing specialty coffee at the local level. It has 44 producer members who organically farm 208 hectares in Motozintla and Siltepec, in the highlands of Chiapas, near the southern border of Mexico and Guatemala. Coffees are wet processed read more
Siltepec is located in the central part of Chiapas. This coffee comes from a high-altitude area of the Sierra Madre, bordering the Biosphere Reserve El Trifuno, which is the habitat of an endemic bird, El Quetzal. This ecological region represents 30 percent of the flora in all the Chiapas territory. read more
Mexico NKG Bloom Jaguar Siltepec comes from a small group of producers in Siltepec as well as the Frontera regions of Chiapas. This area is part of the Sierra Madre, bordering the biosphere El Trifuno — a tropical forest that accounts for 30 percent of the flora of Chiapas, and read more
Topacio SHP EP is grown by small producers in the regions of Jaltenango and Villacorzo Chiapas, Mexico. These small producers hand-pulp their coffee and ferment it in little tanks before sun-drying the beans. Harvest occurs between January and April. Parchment coffee is stored in the warehouse of Exportadora de Cafe read more
Our Chiapas Turquesa, or turquoise, takes its name from the precious blue-green gemstone that was revered by the Aztecs, Toltec and other early Mexican cultures. This coffee comes from smallholder producers who deliver to the San Cristobal de las Casas and Yajalón buying stations in northern Chiapas, to the east read more
