FARM: Quejna

ELEVATION: 2100masl

VARIETIES: Caturra

REGION: Com

The road to Aldea Com is steep, winding and seemingly never ending. The road scales high up the mountains, overlooking the coffee farms across the valleys. When we reached the top, we immediately fell in love in with the small village of Com.
Catarina Leticia is a third generation coffee farmer in Com who has helped organize Jovemcafe; a group of 25 women focused on sustainable agriculture and infrastructure in the community.
Catarina's farm is named Quejna, where she depulps her coffee with a manual depulper and dry ferments the seeds for 24-36hours before washing. After a second washing, the seeds are dried on a patio for twelve hours.