Cafè Feminista: Montze Olvera

Café Feminista: México Montze Olvera celebrates women producers creating opportunity, ownership, and real economic impact through coffee. This honey-processed lot comes from Montze Olvera and Las Adelitas, a feminist ecological collective in Hidalgo, México, honoring Indigenous and campesina women historically erased from coffee’s value chain.

Montze carries a legacy of care and leadership—running her farm, training other women producers, planting specialty trees, and building community programs that link coffee production to human rights and agroecology. Every step is intentional, ensuring value stays closer to producers and that women’s work shapes the future of coffee.

In the cup, this coffee is warm and rich, with notes of papaya, Milk Duds, and candied coconut layered over a smooth, structured body. Balanced and inviting, it’s a coffee to enjoy on its own or in milk, with every sip reflecting the care, skill, and leadership of the women behind it.

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

Sierra de Tenango, Hidalgo, México

Producer

Montze Olvera

Variety

Typica & Marsellesa

Elevation

1400 MASL

Process

Honey
Montze Olvera

Montze Olvera

Montze Olvera founded Las Adelitas in 2020 during the pandemic, drawing on her expertise in rural development and gender to make the work of Indigenous and campesina women visible in coffee. The collective honors the legacy of Mexico’s revolutionary “adelitas,” emphasizing sorority, justice, and equitable participation at every stage of coffee production.

Beyond her farm, Montze has built programs that strengthen her community: establishing Mexico’s first Rural School of Human Rights for Women, developing the Violeta Self-Care initiative to improve women’s well-being, and transforming Finca Púrpura into a field school and hub for producer training. Her work blends tradition with innovation, creating spaces where women can lead, share knowledge, and advocate for rights, ensuring that coffee cultivation is intertwined with social and cultural progress.

Montze Olvera puts it plainly: "Feminism, for me, is a seed, it is a root and it is a voice. It is the space from which I name myself, defend myself, and continue to plant the future."

This lot comes from Montze Olvera and Las Adelitas, a feminist ecological collective founded in 2020 in the Sierra Otomí-Tepehua region of Hidalgo. The collective highlights the Indigenous and campesina women historically erased from coffee’s value chain, honoring the women of the Mexican Revolution: organized, strategic, and unwilling to be written out of history.

Montze’s work extends beyond the farm. She founded Mexico’s first Rural School of Human Rights for Women, leads the Violeta Self-Care Program redistributing income from solidarity coffee sales, and is planting 10,000 specialty trees under agroecological systems at Finca Púrpura. She also builds community barista schools, advances fair labor conditions, and advocates for social insurance for farm workers.

Her philosophy is simple: production and consumption are political acts. Coffee is not neutral. Who grows it, who owns it, who sets the price, and who benefits from its sale are all decisions — and decisions shape systems.

This philosophy shows up in every step, each one shaping value at origin and advancing Montze’s economic vision.

In the cup, that work translates to warm, sugar-browning richness — milk chocolate and toasted caramel. As it cools, ripe papaya and candied coconut emerge, layered over a rounded, structured body that carries the sweetness through to a deliberate, lingering finish.

This coffee doesn’t rely on symbolism. It operates within a broader framework linking agroecology, human rights education, collective organizing, and market participation. Purchasing this lot is participation in that framework: value remains closer to producers, revenue circulates within collective structures, and training, tree planting, and labor advocacy are funded through quality, not charity.

Cafe Feminista is not a gesture. It is participation in a different set of terms.

Beyond production, Montze Olvera is a feminist in action — and her manifesto holds all of us accountable. Originally written in Spanish and translated by Amaris Gutierrez-Ray, it expresses the principles and commitments shaping her work:

My Political Manifesto

My Political Manifesto

My Political Manifesto

Feminism was born in me as a seed of resistance, because since I was a child I learned the harshness of systematic violence, I grew up being a woman with visual impairment in a rural world that seemed to deny me horizons.

Feminism embraced me when political violence wanted to silence me. In 2020 I was a candidate for plurinominal deputy in Hidalgo, the first campesina with disabilities in my region who dared to occupy a historical space.

I came to feminism not as a personal destiny, but as a collective necessity, as the call to organize, to uproot the patriarchal system that in our communities only taught us to compete between women.

I chose sisterhood as my way, and in it I found strength so that our need to live free of violence, to have access to rights, flourished like the coffee that my grandparents cultivated. This coffee that once could not give my grandfather a sustainable life, today is a seed of solidarity between each of Las Adelitas of our collective.

With my violet glasses well on, I walk every day with the firmness of one who knows that a world together awaits us, that the sustainable life we dream roots us, and that in our communities an environment of peace will be possible, where we can live with dignity, and that in our communities it will be possible to live with dignity, and that in our communities, we will be able to live with dignity, freedom and justice.

I decided that my political impact would come from the coffee farm, from being a producer, training myself and helping to train other women, to take on producing a crop that comes with the directive that production and consumption are our first political act.

Mi Manifiesto Político 

El feminismo nació en mí como semilla de resistencia,
porque desde niña aprendí la dureza de la violencia sistemática, crecí siendo mujer con discapacidad visual en un mundo rural que parecía negarme horizontes.

El feminismo me abrazó cuando la violencia política quiso silenciarme, en 2020 fui candidata a diputada plurinominal en Hidalgo,
la primera mujer campesina con discapacidad en mi región
que se atrevió a ocupar un espacio histórico.

El feminismo lo asumí no como un destino personal,
sino como una necesidad colectiva, como el llamado a organizarnos para arrancar de raíz
al sistema patriarcal que en nuestras comunidades
solo nos enseñó a competir entre mujeres.

Yo elegí la sororidad como camino,
y en ella encontré fuerza para que nuestra necesidad de vivir libres de violencia,
de tener acceso a derechos,
floreciera como el café que cultivaron mis abuelos.
Ese café que alguna vez no pudo darle a mi abuelo una vida sostenible,
hoy es semilla de solidaridad entre cada una de las adelitas de nuestra colectiva.

Con mis gafas violetas bien puestas,
camino cada día con la firmeza de quien sabe
que un mundo juntas nos espera,
que la vida sostenible que soñamos nos arraiga,
y que en nuestras comunidades será posible un entorno de paz,
donde podamos habitar con dignidad, libertad y justicia.

Decidí que mi incidencia política sería desde el cafetal,siendo productora, formándome y ayudando a formar a otras mujeres,para emprender en un cultivo que lleva como consignaque la producción y el consumo sean nuestro primer acto político.