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The second component comes from Tarqui, in the Huila department of Colombia. Tarqui sits in an area of Colombia where the Andes mountains split into three separate mountain ranges called “cordilleras,” and between the Central and Eastern Cordilleras you’ll find the El Paraiso Growers’ association.

These coffee associations are known for empowering themselves in numbers to take on projects collectively— like implementing new drying facilities for regions that see greater rainfall, applying as a group for Rainforest Alliance certification, and more. They also receive ongoing agronomic guidance, on their own terms, from our supply chain partners Caravela through their PECA program.

The third coffee comes to us through one of our most celebrated producer relationships, a longstanding connection with the Mierisch family in Nicaragua.

Mama Mina—the nickname that Steve, Eleane, and Erwin Mierisch gave to their grandmother Giurmina—is one of their farms which sits on land that has been in the family for more than 100 years. Erwin “Doc” Mierisch acquired the land in 1994 after the civil war, and began quickly working to improve the conditions by re-planting higher quality cultivars and implementing quality systems for pruning, harvesting, and processing.