Spring Seasonal Blend

Tasting Notes

Strawberries | Brown Sugar | Hibiscus

Roast Level

Light

Cupping Score

85.5

Countries of Origin

Colombia & Honduras

Regions

Cauca & Marcala

Producers

Fondo Paez & Bryan Bautista

Elevations

1300 - 1900 & 1200 - 1600 meters

Varietals

Typica, Castillo, Catuai, Caturra, Lempira, Pacas

Fondo Paez:

Located in the remote, highland regions of Cauca, the Paez (who also call themselves Nasa, or “the people”) is the largest indigenous group in Colombia. Fondo Paez was founded in 1992, with the primary goal of recuperating traditional agricultural knowledge and indigenous culture which had been buried by centuries of conflict and oppression.

The main cash crop of this region is still coffee. Therefore, to ensure a stable income for their members, Fondo Paez proposed a cooperative of community based coffee farmer associations. By 2000, they were sufficiently self-organized to be selling coffee through the Coffee Federation’s Specialty Coffee program. Today they are active members of the fair trade community and process, market, and export their coffee via the regional plant at ExpoCosurca, but maintain full independence in their internal decision-making process. They are governed democratically with final decision-making powers at the general assembly of member delegates, and the day to day work distributed between the producer board of directors and production, organizational, internal credit and external marketing committees run by the members themselves...

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