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Cafè Feminista: Blanca Suazo

Café Feminista: México Blanca Suazo celebrates women producers creating opportunity, ownership, and real economic impact through coffee. This washed lot comes from Blanca Suazo in Córdoba, Veracruz, whose family has farmed the land since 1960. Today, Blanca carries that legacy forward through Musa Café—refining processes, managing her farm with care, and growing healthy seedlings for neighboring producers. Her work strengthens local communities, supports other women in coffee, and connects her farm directly to international markets, helping shift the economic balance in a system where women hold just 20–30% of farm ownership globally.

Bright and expressive, it features notes of cream soda, almond, and Meyer lemon, carried on a smooth, creamy sweetness. Balanced and lively, it’s a coffee that shines on its own or in milk. Every sip reflects Blanca’s care, skill, and leadership, and supports women building tangible economic power through coffee.

This Café Feminista coffee program highlights coffee from women producers who identify with feminism, and live their lives in pursuit of equity and liberation. We know we can’t measure, much less change, what we can’t name - and the invisibility of oppression is still prevalent. In our learning journey as a green coffee buying business, we have been curious about power, the potential for change through our business, and the governing forces in our industry. The goal of this Café Feminista program is to use our platform, our business, to amplify the work of women leaders in coffee whose work will guide our path to feminist futures. Their work and perspectives are critical in reducing barriers of oppression and moving toward liberation and freedom.

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Type

Single Origin

Roast 

Light

Origin

Córdoba, Veracruz, México

Producer

Blanca Suazo

Variety

Colombia, Costa Rica 95, Garnica

Elevation

1100 MASL

Process

Washed

Blanca Suazo

Blanca Suazo

Blanca Suazo leads Musa Café in Córdoba, Veracruz, building on her family’s decades-long farming tradition. Since launching the project with her husband in 2022, she has focused on improving processing methods, experimenting with washed, honey, and natural lots, and tending new plants to sustain her farm and support nearby producers. Blanca’s dedication extends beyond cultivation—she fosters community knowledge, shares expertise with fellow women in coffee, and participates in international skill-sharing programs, creating opportunities for connection and growth. Her work embodies care, innovation, and leadership, shaping both her farm and the broader coffee ecosystem in meaningful, lasting ways.

The first coffee in the series is grown by Blanca Suazo in Córdoba, Veracruz. This washed lot marks the first time her coffee has traveled beyond Mexico — a meaningful milestone for Blanca, her family, and her farm. Bright and expressive, it offers a sparkling profile of candied lemon and orange layered with rum-like sweetness and light spice, all carried by a creamy, caramel-toned smoothness that feels both vibrant and composed from start to finish. Her care and expertise in the field translate directly into every cup.

The farm has been in her family since 1960, when her grandfather purchased the land. As he’s grown older, Blanca and her husband José stepped in to carry the work forward, launching Musa Café in 2022. Their goal was clear: refine traditional washed processes while expanding into honeys and naturals, elevating quality through experimentation and careful farm management. Blanca’s parents, who grew up on these farms, were her first teachers — passing down a deep understanding of cultivation and processing and trusting the next generation to build on that foundation.

Beyond coffee production, Blanca runs a thriving nursery, carefully tending seedlings and supplying healthy coffee plants to fellow producers. Her plant shop has earned a reputation for quality and care — a reflection of the pride, precision, and long-term vision she brings to everything she grows.

Blanca was selected to represent Mexico at a skill-sharing conference in Kigali, Rwanda, where producers from across Latin America and Africa gathered to exchange knowledge and build community — a rare opportunity for farmers to learn directly from one another. That spirit of collaboration, independence, and mutual uplift defines her work, both on her farm and far beyond it.

For Blanca, feminism is a pathway to removing barriers. It’s not performative or political for the sake of politics; it’s lived and practical. Smallholder producers taking ownership of their work, learning from one another, and building independence in tangible ways — that, in itself, is powerful.

By purchasing and brewing this coffee, you’re helping create greater stability for Blanca and her farm — opening doors to markets where her work is valued with consistency and care. In a system often shaped by fluctuating prices and constant negotiation, there’s rarely a guarantee from one harvest to the next. This partnership helps shift that reality. We paid the price Blanca asked. We didn’t negotiate it down. Our role isn’t to direct the work, but to support it — to honor her leadership, amplify her voice, and stand behind the power she’s building for herself and her community.

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