Finca El Guatalón is a family owned and managed farm established by Guillermo Juarez's grandfather. Each generation has brought new cultivars to the farm including Typica, Mundo Novo, Pache, San Ramon, Caturra, Catuaí and most recently Villa Sarchi, Pacamara and Maragogype. Guillermo Juarez is a retired agronomist who started working on El Guatalón over a decade ago. The farm is separated into five micro-regions by soil type and altitude. The different cultivars flourish in slightly different circumstances and each is planted in the area to which it is best suited. The Mataquescuintla region was affected greatly by Roya in recent years, but Guillermo has managed to stave off any serious ingress of the fungus and his farm is doing well. This year Guillermo has harvested from a relatively new plot called La Buganvilia. The new section of the farm has increased the amount of coffee Guillermo can grow and means he has been able to prune heavily to rejuvenate some of the older areas of the farm.

Finca El Guatalon

We source and roast coffee from single farms, estates and cooperatives. When we taste a coffee that we like, we want to know where it comes from and who grows, picks and processes it. We travel extensively throughout the year, visiting the producers and cooperatives with whom we currently work and looking for interesting varietals of coffee and new farms from which to buy. During these visits we talk to farmers and cooperative members, learning more about the coffee they grow and process and the challenges that they face. We then look to establish a relationship with the grower and exporter of that coffee. We believe that where such a relationship exists, quality, quantity and price requirements can be discussed in an open and equal way. We see this as sustainable, fair and equal trade.

Finca El Guatalon

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