Calma

• Origin: Guatemala
• Town: San Antonio Huista
• Region: Huehuetenango
• Process: Washed
• Processing: Washed in each individuals’ wet mill, and then sun dried on patios
• Elevation: 1600-1800 masl
• Soil: Clay
• Shade Trees: Gravilea, Chalun and Fruit treed
• Variety: Caturra, Bourbon, Catuai
• Tasting Notes: Red Apple, Caramel, Milk Chocolate
• Harvest Year: 2024
• Importing Partner: Primavera Green Coffee
• Partnership length with Condesa: 2 years with Primavera Green Coffee, 1st launch of this coffee
• Brewing method recommendation: Drip, French Press, Aeropress

  From our exporting partner, Primavera Green Coffee:

Petra is a twist on our popular regional blend from Huehuetenango. Gender equity is a longstanding challenge for the coffee industry; women coffee growers have less access to land, credit, training, and basic education even as women make key contributions to plant care, harvest, and processing coffee. Research has shown that when women are empowered to make decisions, including financial decisions about their coffee farms, families and community are more successful and their needs are better met.

We purchase 84 and 85 point coffees from smallholder farmers in Huehuetenango each year to blend into a balanced, classic profile for coffee roasters around the world - each unique lot has full transparency and is traceable to the farm level. For the Sisterhood blend, we used these same guidelines but selected only coffees produced by women coffee farmers. Extra funds for this coffee go to putting on workshops for women producers.  

Women producers who contributed to this lot: Trinidad Lucia Mendoza, Josefa Evelia Hernandez, Maria Cardona, Iris Liseth Cano Merida, Celia Andrea de Leon