Guatemala | Santa Isabel 2024

Region: Cobán, GuatemalaProcess: WashedVariety: Field BlendAltitude: 1400-1600 maslWe Taste: Blackberry, Marzipan, Milk Chocolate This is our second year purchasing from Finca Santa Isabel, owned by Wicho Valdés in Cobán, Guatemala. Wicho is a testament to the potential of success for regenerative agriculture in specialty coffee. It's even more impressive that he's doing so at scale with a farm now spanning over 70 hectares. Wicho uses coffee pulp and worm-cultured soil as fertilizer and consistently sends samples of soil and foilage to labs to better understand the health of his trees. Coffee production in general is highly reliant on expensive chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, etc and we believe that pursuing organic or regenerative practices is a great way for producers to boost the health of their farms and have more autonomy over their production. While doing so can be incredibly complicated and risky beyond what we can understand ourselves or try to explain, Wicho and