Guatemala San Martin Jilotepeque

This Guatemala is grown high in the mountains of San Martin Jilotepeque. This is an organic Guatemala that is also currently featured in our Breakfast blend and Wild espresso. The coffee varieties grown here are Caturra and Catuai. We love this coffee for its rich and chocolaty profile, medium to high body, medium acidity, and notes of brown sugar, honey, raisin, and milk chocolate.

The farmers behind this lot belong to the Asproguate farmers association. Asproguate holds monthly workshops in organic fertilizers, fungicides, and insecticides so producers can make these essential products on their own farms. The association has made efforts to increase membership and participation from women who currently make up fifty-five percent membership.

Nicaragua San Juan del Río Coco

This coffee is grown by a few families in the Madriz province, northern Nicaragua, in the mountains around San Juan del Río Coco. We hosted some of the community leaders from this group at our roastery this summer and we were impressed with the quality of the green coffee being offered. It has a classic and clean profile – caramel, chocolate, orange, brown sugar, cinnamon, butterscotch, medium acidity and medium body.

This coffee comes from a community of growers supported by the Winds of Peace Foundation, a non-profit that invests in community social enterprises in Nicaragua. Through their programs, farmers are able to sell their coffee for greater value. Traditionally, farmers receive only one or two payments at most for their coffee. Selling parchment directly to a street broker provides quick cash, but only one payment. Some cooperatives function similarly, while stronger cooperatives with contracts from importers may offer a second payment once the coffee is shipped. With Winds of Peace, however, farmers benefit from three payments—one when their parchment is collected, another when the coffee is exported, and a final payment when it is sold to a roaster like us through Winds of Peace.

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