Finca San Isidro is a fairly small farm with eight of its eight and a half hectares planted with coffee. Alirio has worked hard over the years to get his farm to this size, buying bits and pieces of land around his farm as they have become available. In Colombia there are two harvest seasons, the main crop from October to December and the Mitaca (fly crop) from May to July. These two crops originate from two separate flowering times, Finca San Isidro and in the rest of Huila in general follows this harvesting calendar. Along with coffee, San Isidro produces plantain, mandarins and trout from a pond built next to his house. We usually buy Alirio’s coffee alongside our Lo Mejor de Huila coffee competitions but as we haven’t been able to travel to Colombia during the pandemic we are relying on our team of one – Lucia – there to sample all of the coffees and make the selection for this year’s crop.

Finca San Isidro

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 San Isidro

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Finca San Isidro