A Look at a Coffee Farm Visit: Part 2
In our last blog post we gave you a behind-the-scenes look at our most recent origin trip to Colombia. As promised, here is part 2 of that trip! We visited a second coffee farm while in Colombia, and these are the photos from the second farm.
You might notice in these pictures that this second farm is bigger than the first; it is part of a family-owned coffee business that has been operating for over 80 years. In addition to the many things that they do to support coffee farmers like promote sustainability and export coffees for other farms, they also grow their own coffee on this farm.
We always love to visit coffee farms, meet farmers, and see the coffee trees happily growing the product we get to share with you all later. But this farm was especially interesting to us as they specialize in alternative fermentation processing methods. These inventive processing methods bring a new and exciting flavor profiles to coffees, and we were thrilled to learn more about what this farm is doing with fermentation and see it in action.
However experimental processing methods would be useless without first having beautiful coffee cherries to work with. Check these plants out: they are so happy and well-cared for. We know they will produce amazing coffees for us to roast and share with you.
Other things this coffee company focuses on are sustainability through agroforestry, water conservation, education, establishing direct and long-lasting relationships between coffee farmers and roasters, and positively impacting the local communities of their coffee farms. These are exactly the values we look for in a coffee producer, and we are so excited to work with companies like this one!
Touring the farm and seeing the coffee trees up close is always a highlight of an origin trip, but especially with views like the one pictured above!
After we toured the coffee trees, we got to check out the fermentation and processing at this farm.
If you want to know more about coffee processing methods and how they affect the taste of coffees, you can read about that here. Like we mentioned above, this farm is trying some fascinating processing methods with their coffees, so we were excited to learn more about those.
Most coffee farm visits end with a tasting where we get to taste their product and choose which lots we would like to buy from.
This farm had a really great tasting facility which takes place in their QC Lab with resources like the flavor wheel, sample roasters, and their quality control team to discuss the coffees with.
This was an excellent origin trip to Colombia, both this farm and the one we talked about last week, and we cannot wait to roast and share the coffees we tried on this trip. Keep your eye on our online shop for some upcoming Colombian coffees!
