Colombia
Santander
22 Women heads of household
Finca Santa Maria
Tabi
Washed
December
Caramel, Plum, Balanced
1775 meters
Con Manos de Mujer, Rainforest Alliance, Organic, Bird Friendly
70 kg w/ GrainPro
SOLD OUT
Finca Santa Maria is one of nine farms within Hacienda Cafetera La Pradera in Aratoca, Santander, Colombia. Santa Maria is run by 22 women, all heads of household, and follows La Pradera’s mission of strengthening the Santander coffee cluster, contributing positively to the community, and producing coffee in harmony with the natural world.
Finca Santa Maria is certified with the Con Manos de Mujer seal, verifying that it was produced by the hard work of women coffee producers. They share the labor of planting, tending, pruning, harvesting, and processing the coffee. La Pradera also involves both locals and visitors in the operations of the farm, inviting everyone to visit and see the hard work that the women of Finca Santa Maria have undertaken.
This lot of Tabi coffee underwent Washed processing. Cherries were manually harvested before being washed and sorted to select only fully ripe fruit. The sorted cherries were then sealed into air-tight bags and fermented for 18 hours. The fermented cherries were then pulped and moved into plastic tanks where the coffee was sealed in and fermented again with its mucilage for 24–36 hours. Washed coffee was then mechanically dried to 11% humidity and stored in GrainPro before being prepared for shipment and export.
Get to know Ana Mildred Muñoz who leads Finca Santa Maria in our blog series, A Few Questions With.
Santander is unique among Colombia’s coffee growing regions, with a varied topography of mountains, rivers, canyons, and valleys. Located to the east of Antioquia and the north of Boyaca, Cundinamarca, and Bogota in Central Colombia, the department of Santander was established in 1857 and today contains a variety of agricultural industries.
Santander’s Andes mountains are where some of the first coffee farms in Colombia were established, and the Department’s agricultural history is intertwined with the history of coffee. Fresh water sources and rich soil continue to make the region suited for coffee farming today, with shade trees and forests incorporated on most farms.
