Organic Columbia Tolima Asprasar

Grower Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios de Santa Rosa (ASPRASAR) | 67 members Altitude 1700 – 1900 masl Variety Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia Soil Clay minerals Region Saldaña, Herrera and Rio Blanco, Tolima, Colombia Process Fully washed and dried in the sun Harvest May-Septiembre Certification Fair Trade (FT FLO/USA) | Organic Coffee Background For many years Tolima has remained hidden in plain sight between other well-known coffee growing regions because armed conflict and coca leaf production isolated small coffee producers and exposed them to high rates of violence. As conflict has subsided in recent years, locally organized associations have taken the lead in creating market access for their coffee. This traceable blend with a vibrant regional profile comes from an association called Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios de Santa Rosa (ASPRASAR), which has 67 producers with small farms in the municipalities of Herrera and Rio Bl