When I turned 14 years old in 1984 I had just left my first year of high school in the capital Guatemala. My father was a coffee producer already for about 25 years and he told me how he started planting coffee and how he had been a recognised producer in Santa Rosa registered by Anacafe. I started planting coffee…
With 125 years of coffee farming experience, the Falla family is one of the oldest coffee farming families in Antigua. The story of San Miguel- Single Origin Coffees begins more than 50 years ago when Arturo Falla Cofiño embarked on a new adventure when he purchased the farm El Tempixque. El Tempixque is located just a short drive from Antigua,…
Luis “Wicho” Valdés III is the third-generation producer of Finca Santa Isabel and Finca San Lorenzo. Located among the rolling hills of the San Cristobal town in the department of Alta Verapaz in the Cobán region of Guatemala, Wicho cultivates and processes one of Guatemala’s most sought-after coffees. Cobán is a coffee growing region characterized by its humid weather and…
