12oz Bag
Type: Arabica
Varieties: Catuai
Processing: Natural and Sun Dried
Region: Tarrazu
Tasting Notes: Pineapple, Raisin and a clean finish.
We decided to get directly connected to the final clients, offering them better product, better quality, and guaranteeing the traceability and better outcomes. Previously, we were harvesting coffee and selling them to mills in cherries form. Then, we started with a small lot of first harvest; a micro-mill. With constant self-education, and training, and together, in our second year onwards, we were able to sell two micro lots. Now, we are processing about 30% of our entire coffee harvest. It’s been really challenging to execute all the process involved in achieving the quality standard that we want from selecting, harvest and milling the coffees. However, we have not stopped growing, and learning each harvest to improve our work, quality and offer better product to the market.
We are a family business consisting of three people. The ones that are directly responsible for everything that happen at the mill level, are 100% women - the mother (Seilyn) and the daughter (Kamila).
We envision continuing to do a quality job, growing professionally and personally. I can assure you that thanks to each of you buying our product, you create an unimaginable butterfly effect. You impact our lives, the people that we are with, our families and all of this not only economically, but also more holistically. Because when we achieve a better quality of life, we grow integrally.
There is a gender gap in access to agronomic and economic resources that leads women to yield lower productive farms, revenues from crop sales, and household welfare. To achieve greater equity in the coffee we need to invest and purchase coffees from smallholder women-coffee producers.
The Care Partnership celebrates the hard work and fresh coffees produced by smallholder women coffee producers.
Bean Voyage provides a bundle of services consisting of training, finance, mentorship, and market access to improve business outcomes for smallholder women coffee farmers and their families over a three-year period.
Today, an average Bean Voyage farmer earns 212% more in annual coffee sales revenue than the market prices and our program has reached over 2,400 community members in all eight coffee producing regions of Costa Rica.
Bean Voyage works with trading partners to ensure higher prices and long term relationships with buyers (like James Coffee).