We have been buying Gustavo's delicious Brazillian coffee since 2019. Fazenda Copaiba Braga is located in Patrocinio in Minas Gerais. We love the consistency and luxurious dark chocolate notes we get from this coffee.

Prabhakar Baskar and his son Rohan own Pampadampera estate in Kerala, India. We fell in love with this beautiful estate covered in mature trees providing shade for the coffee and natural habitats for bees and birds when we visited in 2017.

The estate surpasses the Rainforest Alliance criteria by having more trees than required. Particular attention was given by Prabhakar and his team this year to improving quality and yield by way of new organic fertilisers, additional plant husbandry and taller plant height.

The San Ignacio Province sits at the top of the Cajamarca region in Northern Perú sharing a border to the north with Ecuador. Here the western and eastern mountain ranges of the Andes meet to form microclimates in the valleys that descend from the mountains to the Amazon basin. The farms are located in the buffer zones of a protected natural area. This means working with an organic methodology and certification is a strategic point because through these standards, a culture of protection of wildlife and species in danger of extension is encouraged and created.quality and interest in new cross breeds fascinating.

Permata Gayo Cooperative consists of 50 farmers in Bener Merjah district, Aceh, North Sumatra. We visited here in 2019. Members of the cooperative come from villages near Takengon, a well-known coffee town in the province of Aceh located at the northern end of Sumatra. The coffee is all shade grown below the canopies of trees and is organic as only chicken manure is used with no pesticides or fertilizers. We purchased 10 diesel pulping stations for the farmers in 2020 which has reduced walk time from the plantations.

Osvaldina Dutra and her two sons, Ednilson and Walters manage Fazendas Dutra in Espirito Santo, Brazil. The coffee is 100% certified organic and meets social, economic and environmental quality standards at international level. Each year they try to improve, as their mission is: “Producing Coffee of Excellence” In addition, they have an excellent combination of polyculture between coffee, avocado and banana that make their crops a natural forest where an entire ecosystem coexists. The coffee crop usually begins in June because their crops are in a high mountain region which allows the coffee to mature slowly concentrating more sugars and an infinite sensation of unique flavours.

Wendell Erazo is the General Manager at Solcafe Cooperative, Copan, Honduras. Solcafe started as an iniative of small producers from 3 departments in western Honduras with the aim of connecting high quality small producers with the speciality coffee market, thereby helping to improve the quality of life of small coffee producing families. Most of the farms have had at least 3 generations of coffee growing families.