El Peten coffee goes to Belgium - 06/08

After transport strikes and in the midst of the first ever Pacific hurricane, I watched as our coffee was sorted by a room full of Nica women and loaded into a container to be shipped off to Belgium. Lucky them! They paid good money for it. We hope to find a buyer with similar social and organic ideals for this next years coffee.

We have saved some green beans here in Nicaragua for sale to those who are looking for quality. Contact us for details.

We are begining construction of our new beneficio. It includes the coffee depulping area, the worm culture building, the gallera where the cows deposit the manure that we mix with the pulp to feed the worms, and the workers quarters and their dining room. We are employing an integrated approach to purifying the water used to wash the coffee that consists of sequential treatment ponds with charcoal, gravel and aquatic plants. Growing coffee on the edge of the lake requires extra care with regard to protecting the environment. We are dedicated to constructing systems that insure a clean and sustainable process.