origin stories

Costa Rica - Lica Torres
about the producer. Don Lica and his family began building their wet mill Cerro Buena Vista in 2015. Selling cherries to local mills had become financially unsustainable and neighbours in the small region of Pérez Zeledón in Brunca in the...
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Brazil - Danielle Fonseca
about the producer. Danielle Fonseca always dreamed of living at her grandparents' coffee farm. Growing up in the city and visiting on weekends she developed a love of the plants and animals here - but coffee wasn’t always her passion....
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Ethiopia - Tesfaye Bekele
about the producer. Tesfaye Bekele is one of the people who put Guji specialty coffee on the map. His story is a remarkable full circle journey that resulted in the development of one of the world’s best coffee growing regions....
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Colombia - Diofanor Ruiz
about the producer. Diofanor Ruiz is a legend in Quindio with a long history of managing other producers’ farms before establishing his own coffee production in 2005. Diofanor’s 14 hectare farm, La Divisa in Buenavista, Quindio is located at 1950...
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Ethiopia - Chelchele
about the region. Yirgacheffe is one of the most highly regarded coffee producing regions in the world, known for the quality and clean fruit profiles of its coffees. Chelchele, in the Gedeb sub-region has gained a reputation in its own...
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