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DARK CHERRY - DATE - FLORAL
Variety: Caturra, Castillo, Colombia
Region: Narino
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1700- 2000 m.a.s.l.
Tablon de Gomez municipality in one of the most famous coffee-growing areas of Nariño, Colombia. It’s an area where coffee has made an immense and positive difference in quality of life.
The farming community here has a deeply-rooted tradition of ecological protection. All producers preserve part of their farm as untouchable forest. They also leave native plants untouched in places where waterways originate, and keep livestock out of those areas. They are hyperaware that climate change is a real problem and that as it worsens, their community and others like it will bear the earliest and most severe consequences. The producers here focus primarily on coffee, intercropping with other fruit trees that they use for shade like avocado and lemon. They also raise free-range animals such as chickens, pigs, and guinea pigs, whose manure and consumption contribute to the integrated ecosystem.
Our importing partner Red Fox has been working in this area with these specific communities since 2015, when the remoteness of the region meant a lack of strong market access. Now, producers here have options for where they sell their coffee, and we continue to pay premium rates so that the relationships feel mutually rewarding.
