Don Alfonzo

Oscar and Francisca Chacón inherited this family farm from their grandparents and is currently run by 6 brothers and sisters and their mother. This couple is one of the first coffee growing families in Costa Rica to produce Honey and Natural Process specialty coffee, following an earthquake in 2008, wide-spread electricity/water shortages lead them to take inspiration from African processes - building raised beds for drying, which led to new ways of processing their coffee. Through experimentation, these innovative processing led to the well-sought-after honey lots that Costa Rica is renowned for.

This lot comes from the Arsosala Washing Station, located at 1,800 masl in the Uraga woreda of Guji, Ethiopia. Founded in 2015, Arsosala now serves 1,200 smallholder producers, who cultivate coffee on small plots alongside other crops and deliver their cherries to the station. The station pays partner farmers a 5–10% premium, encouraging a focus on quality rather than volume. This is a special prep lot, only cherries picked at perfect ripeness are selectived from the day lot and processed seperately. The result is a small volume, curated lot of the best quality from Arsosala.

This lot comes from the Kamwangi washing station and is grown at altitudes of 1,600-1,800 masl. by smallholders in Kirinyaga County, in Kenya’s central highland region. Kamwangi is one of three washing stations managed by the Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society, which serves around 1,500 farmers in this region, home to the slopes of Mount Kenya, rich volcanic soils, and numerous rivers. Coffee develops slowly due to the high altitude and lower temperatures, creating very muture fruit flavours, high in complexity.

This coffee comes from second-generation farmer Pedro Pastor in Curarén, Francisco Morazán - found 1350 - 1600 masl. in southern Honduras. Curarén is located within the Mesoamerican Dry Corridor, making growing coffee here challenging due to prolonged dry spells and increasing climate variability. Local farmers have adapted to these challenges with efforts to conserve water, protect soil and maintain productivity. Coffee is grown alongside native vegetation and shade trees, integrated amongst the coffee farms to increase biodiversity and the ecosystem's health.