Jaime Urías, Farm Nicolás, farm la pasión and farm Las Rosas.

I NAMED ONE OF MY FINCAS IN HONOR OF MY FATHER NICOLAS, WHO PASSED AWAY WHEN I WAS 18…

The next harvest, my coffee was almost entirely destroyed by rust, and I had to get up at five every morning to save what I could. Often, I was so desperate that I fantasized about leaving everything behind, to flee to the United States in search of a better life. But I felt unable to abandon my mother, and besides, I didn’t even have enough money to take a bus to neighboring Guatemala.

So, I had no choice but to fight for our finca and our future, here in the village of Santa Teresa, where I grew up and where I feel at home. Little by little, I learned how to grow and process better coffee and at the same time I studied to become a technician in agronomy, specializing in coffee plants. At school, I learned things about cultivating coffee that my father and grandparents had never taught me.

Now, I am employed as the technical coordinator of CAFESMO, but I continue to tend to my finca with the same dedication as before, and ever increasing expertise. My mom and sister help me a lot. My sister and her husband have a finca as well, but they often check on mine when I am elsewhere in the field for CAFESMO.

In 2018, I produced my first micro-lot, which was cupped at 85, but I am determined to do much better than that with my next harvest. 

Farm facts

I own almost 3 hectares of land at an altitude of 1250 to 1280 meters. Cultivars are Obata, Lempira and Icatú.

Shadow is provided abundantly by cuajiniquil, a local tree that grow to around 7 meters, and also sweet-gum vegetation. The sweet-gum offers a great natural barrier to separate my farm from the road as well as from neighboring plots. 

My coffee is FTO certified and I offer micro-lots as well.

This farm is Rain Forest Alliance certified.