Notes: Tangerine, Raspberry, Watermelon & Maple Sugar. Nuanced and elegant cup.

Grower: Inés Perafan of Los Guacharos Association
Farm: Finca los Olivios in Puerto Lleras, Huila, Colombia
Variety: Pink Bourbon 
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1650 masl
Source Partner: Shared Source 

Inés Perafan Piamba grew up in a coffee-growing family, as one of ten siblings helping their family to tend to the coffee plots. Today, she and her 20 year-old daughter Sandra work on the farm together, tag-teaming between household chores, cooking for the family and for pickers, and processing coffee. Their coffee has been recognized for high quality- they placed in the Cup of Excellence in 2011, and are proud of their success. Their farm is in the township of Puerto Lleras, and they de-pulp and ferment the coffee on the farm, before bringing wet coffee down to their home closer to town. Sandra is inspired by her mother’s example, both as a farm manager and as a mother- and she’s motivated to continue Ines’ legacy.

Inés is a member of the Aso Guacharos, an enviro-sustainability focused group of coffee farmers in and around Bruselas, Southern Huila, Colombia. Los Guacharos are a group of independent, quality-focused small producers who are collectively converting to organic agriculture, making their own fertilizers and fungicides, installing complex water filtration systems that use gravity, stones and sand to remove all mucilage residues from waste water to not contaminate water systems.