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Colombia Sundried Excelso EP 10% Estate Coffee La Guamera

Since more than 25 years, the tenacity of a family group in the middle of the eje cafetero created a stunning farm whose coffee has all the richest flavors and aromas that Colombian mountains have to offer.
Finca La Meseta-Guamera is adjacent to a village and involves the local community in the production process, from seedlings to manual sorting of ripe fruits: their hard and enthusiastic work guarantees the physical and sensory quality of the extraordinary coffees from this estate.
Due to its location in the mountains, Finca La Meseta-Guamera is classified as a “finca de altura”, an attribute you can feel in the excellent quality and cup profile of its coffees.
Finca La Meseta-Guamera emphasize the preservation of natural resources, the sustainability of its production process, the social responsibility for all the people involved in the production, and the traceability of its products.
The focus of the Finca La Meseta-Guamera is to offer a true genuine sustainable coffee, resulting in the continuous training of the local community with an interdisciplinary group as well as with local and national authorities in the application of the Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas.
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Honduras Natural Micro Lot Special Preparation Finca Platanares

Located on the mountainous slopes of the Rio Colorado valley at an altitude of 1,150 meters above sea level on the cordillera de Celaque, the most extensive and preserved rainforests in Honduras hosting the Cerro Las Minas, the tallest peak in Honduras, Finca Platanares produces an inimitable shade-grown coffee.
Traditionally, all coffee was shade-grown. Most varieties of coffee are naturally intolerant of direct sunlight and prefer a canopy of sun-filtering shade trees. As a result of modernization and a push for higher yielding crops, in the mid-1970s new sun-tolerant and fungal-resistant coffee varieties have been developed. Whether this change allowed a significant increase in productivity, on the other hand, it had a negative impact on the environment. This has resulted in a new trend in support of shade-grown coffee.
Shade-grown coffee is a true sustainable farming method with a tangible, positive impact on the environment. Recent data have shown that between all agricultural land uses, the shade-grown coffee is most likely the crop that supports the highest diversity of migratory birds and native flora and fauna; birds and mammals alike play a large role in pest control by eating many herbivorous insects, with a consequent increase in bee abundance and a better pollination process for the whole eco-system. Plus, shade-grown coffee helps reduce soil erosion, stabilize mountainous slopes and save soil moisture: less runoff of surface water and greater water retention means less leaching of nutrients, further recharged by the added leaf litter and other plant material falling from the shade trees, that increase soil nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen.
All coffees from the farm are shade-grown under plane and bananas trees, carefully harvested by hand and meticulously sorted before being delivered for processing to the mill.
As the local communities have always lived in symbiosis with their territory, so this coffee estate does: Finca Platanares emphasize the preservation of natural resources, the sustainability of its production process, the social responsibility for all the people involved in the production, and supports a re-forestation program aiming to preserve the local eco-system, the biodiversity and water river protection.
Finca Platanares is involved in many social projects for the local community, such as the creation of a virtual library for children and young people, the development of policies and training courses on the child labor prevention, the creation of a youth soccer academy, the support to rural clinics for the financing of medical personnel and supplies, the creation of medical teams dedicated to the vaccinations in the most internal areas, and much more.