Brazil Elenir Santa Lucia

Description

This coffee has been selectively hand-picked and processed as an Extended Fermentation Natural. Cherries have undergone 80 hours of fermentation, and have been dried on a patio and raised beds.
The farm is owned by Antonio Wander Garcia, but it is his son Andre Garcia who runs the farm with the manager Diquinho. Andre is an agronomist and along with his wife also owns the other main partner farm we work with, Jaguara.

Santa Lucia farm was bought in 1994 By Antonio, but the whole family have been working together on the farm and have worked for many years with the farms manager Diquinho. Diquinho is a crucial part of the success of this farm, he lives on the farm with his own family and cares for the land, the trees and the animals here as if each where is own. Because of his importance we have named some special lots after him and in his honor.

Initially the farm had 62 hectares of land dedicated to cattle however in 1998, the owners decided that it was time to invest in another type of agribusiness. They began planting coffee, first dedicating only 8 hectares of land to it. This number has grown over the years and today the farm counts on 123 hectares of land, dedicating 30 hectares for coffee and has an annual average production of 1000 bags.

The remaining areas are represented by native forests which were 25% recovered, because when the farm was bought, these forests didn’t exist. In 2016, they started an intense work at quality and excellent coffees were identified, conquering even the prize of 6th best coffee, at the category natural coffees at the contest Cup of Excellence.