San Pedro Farmer Pin • Funding Ciro's Pink Bourbon Project

Producer: Albiero Lugo Project: Cherry Buying/Pink Bourbon Goal: $10,000 raised Region: Huila, Colombia Albiero and his father Ciro have been some of our most valued partners for the last nine years. Industrious and exacting this father/son team carved an existence out of an area with almost zero specialty buyers for years, still focusing on quality. Ciro espoused the belief to his son and all their neighbors that quality was worth the effort within itself despite a lack of commensurate payment. We've been very proud to provide that commensurate payment over the years we've worked together and watched them reinvest heavily each year into quality and production. This year Albiero is looking to expand his production, not through additional plants, but by purchasing pink bourbon from all his neighbors. We are able to pay a high price for this treasured variety, and some of the first farmers to plant it are here in the community of La Marimba. There's a lot of new infrastructure and start