Farms

 THIS ARE SOME OF THE FARMERS WE WOULD BE COLLECTING OUR SPECIALTY COFFEE FROM

RAMIRO Y LOLA URIBE

FARM "GALILEA"

Their farm is located in the area Regueros of the municipality of Pitalito, with 13 hectares and 23.000 trees of different varieties and specializing in Honey coffee. the farm has 1.300 mts of elevation.  This people are really committed to the process and the good treatment of coffee, always looking to better themselves.

COFFE NOTES: FLORAL, BERRIES, Acidity HIGH PLAIN -  RESIDUAL  LIGHT AND LOW BODY.

THIS IS ALAIN ARDILA'S FARM: 
He is located in the area of Charguayaco with an elevation of 1.600 mts. above sea level and 7 hectares of coffee.

THIS IS ARLEY TRUJILLO'S FARM

He is located in the area of Holanda near Brucelas at about 1.450 mts of elevation.
Along with his brothers they have a total of 18 hectares and they produce over 60.000 kilos a year.
Their coffee has some wonderful aromas and flavors that are unique of this area.

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Our Origins

PitaCoffee was formed to assist a few coffee farmers at a time in the area of Pitalito, Huila, Colombia to upgrade and develop better practices in their labor towards harvesting and handling of their product which is green coffee beans.  We have invested in a program with some experts on specialty coffees to train the farmers to work out some practices in the coffee production that will ensure the quality of the product so that they start producing nothing but specialty coffee and the added profit value of the coffee stays within the farm, upgrading their way of living. We have selected 18 farms of the region to work with, developing  a closed relationship with them and teaching them that coffee, been a food product has to be treated with the highest quality standards of processing so that at the end we not only have clean coffee beans but the best tasting specialty coffee possible for the world international market.  For this purpose we have hired a team of consultants to assist us in this endeavor, of which, we will be reporting on the progress and the results in this blog. 

We found out that the standard practice among most of the farmers is to wait till most of the coffee trees are in the ripen state and all in a short period of time, hire workers to strip the beans whether partially ripe to even over ripe in one pass and have them all milled to remove the flesh of the raw coffee cherries, ferment them and then the beans are taken to their drying place to be dried for a few days before bagging them to be sold to the Coffee Federation or to large international coffee companies. This will result in, basically selling them at the lowest going price on the market.

The coffee buyers whether coffee companies or the Federation will take the coffee beans and threshed them to remove the parchment, select out the good green beans from the bad, to sell the good green beans at an increased profit for themselves and the bad will be sold to the local market in order to make instant coffee, decaffeinated coffee or for commercial purposes, called "pasilla".  This is the normal current system of the coffee market.

By influencing the local coffee farmers to improve their standards in managing the picking of the cherries, selecting out the best cherries (the richest ripe cherries) as they become ripe (weekly) to be milled, fermented, dried to 10 -12% moisture, and bagged for threshing all within certain guidelines will result in the best green bean possible (Specialty Coffee).  Also by teaching the farmers about the quality of their product that will be highly marketable and will ensure an ongoing sustainable production and more earnings to the grower; consequently they will better their livelihood, not only for themselves but also for their workers.

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Source

PitaCoffee’s Co-Op 

This are the farms we will be collecting our Specialty Coffee from:

#	Nombre	Municipio	Vereda	Finca	Hectareas
1	Juan Pablo Albañil	Pitalito	Holanda	Charrito	1.1
2	Jaime Suaza Parra	Pitalito	Holanda	Esperanza	8
3	Joselito Rojas	Muestra	Cerritos	Esperanza	6
4	Miller Rojas	Pitalito	Cerritos	Paraiso	7
5	Arley Trujillo Torres	Pitalito	Holanda	Esperanza	4
6	Miguel Rivera	Pitalito	Holanda	Gavilanes	9
7	Augusto Benavidez	Pitalito	Sta Ines	La Loma	3
8	Libardo Trujillo Robinson Trujillo	Pitalito	Holanda	Parcela #12	4
9	Gustavo Rojas	Pitalito	Sta Ines	Porvenir	4
10	Cesar Augusto Cano	Brucelas	Bombanal	Eltavor	3
11	Miller Rojas Caney	Lider	Cerrito	Paraiso	6
12	Ramiro & Lola Uribe	pitalito	Regueros	Galilea	13
13	Antonio Alain Ardila	Pitalito	Charguayaco		13
14	Francisco Javier Perdomo	Pitalito	Batallón		7
15	Locadio Rojas	Pitalito	Guacacayo	Raicita	3
16	Mary Gallardo	Santa Clara	Las Palmas	El Descanso	7
17	Miller Munoz – Ariel Rodriguez	Elias	Las Delicias	La Pradera	3
18	Marcial Buitron & Nancy Munoz	Bruselas		Potrero Grande	13

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