Farm info

Alciones Virginio dos Santos was born in the same community where he now lives and grows coffee in Brejaubinha, Brejetuba.  Alciones produces specialty coffee and has never looked back; with a watchful eye he takes care of all the details required by certifications like fair trade, even though he has not gone through the bureaucracy to earn the official seal. He carefully tends to each stage of production and personally watches to make sure his coffee is kept separate during dry milling.

His two children, Lorrayne and Laila, are as eager as he is for each harvest to arrive to see the final result of the family’s labor and to see more and more neighboring producers also taking greater care with attention to detail in their production processes.

There is a section of Mundo Novo trees on his property inherited from his grandfather and then his father and Alciones is preparing to add more land to his family farm. Currently, the property has 30,000 coffee trees planted, which yield around 400 bags per harvest, of which roughly fifty percent reaches specialty standards. On Sitio Boa Vista Alciones has equipment for depulping coffee, drying on a covered patio, and space for post-harvest sorting.