Description
High-quality coffee grown with passion and tradition by Silvestre.
"I grew up with the coffee plant," Silvestre told us when we asked him about his motivations for growing coffee. No other phrase better expresses Silvestre's feelings than this. His experience allows him to produce high-quality coffees, and he hopes to pass this knowledge on to his youngest son, who lives with him and his wife, Olga.
This batch is made from the well-known Caturra variety, very common in the area and to this day a great combination of quality and disease resistance. Silvestre harvests his cherries during the day and pulps them in the evening. He then leaves the parchment to ferment in open cement tanks for 36 hours, regularly checking the progress of the fermentation. After that time, he washes the berries and sets them to dry.
In addition to their coffee farm, Silvestre and Olga (especially Olga) work in their small shop selling groceries to their neighbors. Like them, other families in Nuevo Trujillo have other sources of income, such as livestock and vegetable farming.
Regarding the area, Nuevo Trujillo is a small community covered by cloud forests with large tree species, such as cedar, laurel, and rosemary. When asked about the meaning of "Quanda," Silvestre told us that there is a stream near his farm that many years ago had such a high flow that it was impossible for people to cross it to reach his farms and other towns. Therefore, people used to ask "When will it pass? When will it pass?", renaming this stream simply Quanda (similar to "when" in English). This curious story tells us not only about the name of his farm, but also about how the landscape and water availability might have changed in San Ignacio. However, Silvestre and his family are also interested in trees, so we are sure they are doing a great job conserving them and, as a result, ensuring their function by regulating water in the ecosystem.
