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The name of the coffee comes from the mountain called Cerro Punta, located in the district of Tierras Alta’s in the province of Chiriquí, Panamá. This area was founded by European migrant families from the Boquete District during the 1950s-1960s, when coffee was eliminated due to its low yield and the land was used for vegetable cultivation. This...

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Costa Rica La Chumeca Anaerobic Cap Every once in a while, you encounter a coffee that really sticks in your mind. It sets a new level of ‘wow’ for the barista. This anaerobic processed coffee from our friend Per Nordby did just that when we first cupped it. In 2017 when I first started with the filterbox I had already some gems from Per in the box. This...

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Nano Challa cooperative was established in 2004 by an initial 25 farmer members from the Agaro town in the Jimma Zone, Oromia, Western Ethiopia. The founder members formed the group in order to foster unity and to share in addressing issues they were facing around finding good buyers for their coffee, alleviating debt and improving standards of...

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San Francisco is the name of a district in the Cordillera Central, also called La Zona de Los Santos, but it is also the name of the farm owned and run by Edgar Fallas Solis, his wife Ligia and their son Willian. Edgar is the second generation of his family to work on this 55-year-old farm and Willian, his son, will take over when he retires. The family...

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The Red de Mujeres, or ‘network of women’, is a large group of female coffee producers covering five different areas of Huehuetenango. The group is made up of 830 women. Within the entire community of women there are 8 different Mayan languages spoken, highlighting the diversity of culture and language in this area of Guatemala. All of these...