Leonidas Ruiz

A producer family in the community of San Pedro which is inhabited by 90 families. They are located almost 8 miles from the town of San Juan del Río Coco and through very difficult access roads, because of steep and rocky inclines. It is a producer family composed of seven people who invest what they earn in the farm and support their community. They are committed to coffee quality as a way of living. They harvest their coffee carefully with family labor, they pulp and wash the coffee and select the beans to separately dry their first quality coffee. They compensate for the altitude with their strict care of whole and undamaged beans. Their coffee expresses that fine relationship between investing in volume and also in quality, investment in the farm and in the community.

Province: Madriz

Municipality: San Juan de Río Coco

Altitude: betweem 2,625 and 2,953 feet above sea level

Coffee variety: catimor

Process: pulped and washed

Fertilizer: Use of coffee pulp and soil, flora and fauna conservation measures.

Fermentation: 18 hours in tanks

Drying: 10 days

Shade trees: Mango, West Indian elm, ficus, lilac, banana, orange, avocado

Forest area: 6.8 acres

Labor: relatives in the community