Eulalio García, Finca La Huerta

I started learning about coffee from my father when I was still a child, and I immediately took to it…

Sometimes it’s hard: the leaf rust that can suddenly and viciously attack your farm, the chronically low prices that we get for our coffee, or the sheer amount of work that we are burdened with, especially during the harvest.

But when shove comes to push, there’s nothing else I’d rather do than be at the farm, care for my plants, admire them, even talk to them. My son and daughter were also carried away by the farm when they were still little. In fact, my son Ever learned to be a construction worker but he very much prefers the farm, as does my daughter Mayorie, who got ‘addicted’ since she was twelve, according to her own definition.

The three of us are able to keep up with the work during most of the year, on our 7 hectares, but during the harvest season we need to hire help. We also have two very loyal, hard-working donkeys, who carry the sacs of coffee from our land to the road, as even 4WD cannot access the last part and it’s too much coffee to carry on our shoulders after a long day of picking.

At the end of the day, we all return home – including the donkeys! – for a hearty meal and a cup of well-deserved coffee to be full of energy again for the evening hours, when we work our wet mill and dry our coffees. We have a solar dryer to dry specialty coffees and are mostly focused on preparing honey micro-lots.

 Sometimes we think about who drinks our coffee, months after the harvest, or where they live, and, most importantly for us, what they think of the taste, the quality. It would be wonderful to be able to relate to end consumers and learn about their wishes and preferences. Regardless, we are convinced of that our coffee is the greatest in the world, at least for us, when we drink it with breakfast to start another, energetic day!

Farm facts

The farm is 7 hectares and is located at 1,380 meters on a piece of land where we have a lot of natural shadow.

We grow Obata, Parainema, and Lempira and our coffee is FTO certified.

This farm is Rain Forest Alliance certified.