Our roots are indigenous, and we want to change with the times and places in which we find ourselves. We were born in the dry lands of Cusmapa and San Lucas amid beans and corn, and we came to this community to be coffee growers. We changed these coffee fields, from coffee with chemicals to coffee which is diversified and organic. Changing, deepening our roots, is our secret to life.
Province: Madriz
Municipality: San Juan del Río Coco
Farms: 15
Area: 25.5 acres
Altitude: 800 to 900 meters above sea level (2,625 to 2,953 feet above sea level)
Varieties: catimor, pacamara and catuai.
Process: pulped and washed
Fermentation: 18 hours in tanks
Drying: coffee drying boxes and patios for 27 days
Shade trees: orange, bananas, plantains, lemon, tamarind, guaba, oak and laurel
Workers: Fill their backpacks with oranges and take bananas back to their homes, eat lunch with the owners of the coffee. “The fact is that we are all the same people.”
