Origin Information

GROWER:  Producers from Guadalupe Miramar

REGION:  Guadalupe Miramar, Municipilityof Santa Maria Yucohiti, Oaxaca

ALTITUDE:  1600 - 1,850 Meters

PROCESS:  Fully washed and dried in the sun

VARIETY:  Typica Pluma

HARVEST:  December – March

SOIL:  Clay Minerals

CERTIFICATION: Fair Trade, Organic

Background Details

This particular lot comes from families living near the town of Guadalupe Miramar who cultivate coffee on farms with just a few acres. Imagine starting at sea level in the popular Mexican beach destination of Puerto Escondido and traveling along progressively steeper and curvier roads through villages, where the local population still wear traditional indigenous clothing, eventually arriving at a lush forest intercropped with coffee, bananas, corn, beans, fruit trees, and views of the Pacific Ocean. This is the Oaxacan coffee growing region known as the zona Pluma where the Sierra Madre del Sur coastal mountain range is peppered with small coffee farms.