Honduras Organic Raos Marcala

Grower Members of Cooperativa Regional de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra (RAOS) Altitude 1200 – 1650 masl Variety Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra, and Typica Soil Clay minerals Region Marcala, La Paz, Honduras Process Fully washed and dried in the sun Harvest November - March Certification Fair Trade (FT FLO/USA) | Organic Coffee Background Founded in 1997, Cooperativa Regional de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra (RAOS), was the first cooperative of small and medium organic coffee producers in Honduras. RAOS has 270 members, many of them pioneers in the organic movement with decades of experience cultivating coffee. Others are from a new generation of producers who grew up on their parents’ organic farms. Running organic farms is in their blood but not without adding their own new ideas. Many of these producers have built new ecologically run micro-mills with a demucilager, which uses very little water and controls the amount of mucilage that remains on