🇭🇳 Honduras
The Slow Food Community “Las Capucas Sustainable Coffee Village”, was created in 2021, and their aim is to:
Improve access to new markets to ensure the commercialization of good quality coffee and generate economic income for the families of coffee producers committed to the environment and productive sustainability.
- Train producers in Slow Food standard requirements.
- Generate all the information required as a normative requirement of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition.
- Agro-ecological management of farms for organic production
- Implementing a traceability system for the coffee chain
- Secure storage of coffee from farms from the SFCC
- Implement chain of custody from the farm, mills and exporter of the product with the Slow Food logo.
The creation of the community was promoted by Umami Area Honduras S.A. de C.V.,a local profit company with an international shareholder party with the aim to run a sustainable coffee plantation management in terms of environmental, quality, organic, social, financial, diversification, agroforest point of view.
The shareholders are representing the entire value chain of every step of the production process from seedling, growing, harvesting, shipping to roasters and buyers including ultimately the baristas.
Umami Area Honduras project was born thanks to the cooperation
between 25 partners, willing to prove that high-quality coffee production can be sustainable from an entrepreneurial, financial, social, environmental and local community point of view. Umami Area Honduras has purchased an existing coffee plantation nearby the Celaque Nation al Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, with a total of 45 hectares bounded by two rivers rio Colorado and rio Aruco.
Umami acted, in the creation of the Community, together with representatives of the Cooperativa Cafetaleras Capucas Limitas, a cooperative reuniting around 1000 farmers producing coffee from Las Capucas and nearby areas on the slopes of Mount Celaque.
Coffee variety: Arabica
Farming system: The coffee is grown in the shade in an agroforestry system, intercropped with platain and banana plants.
Processes: semi-washed, natural and honey.
Participatory Guarantee System initiative: Since its creation, the Slow Food Community in Las Capucas is carrying on their PGS initiative to guarantee that the coffee produced from the farmers taking part to the initiative is following the Coffee Coalition of good, clean and fair coffee.
Participatory Guarantee System 2022
In November 2021, the Slow Food Community “Las Capucas Sustainable Coffee Village” decided to start a PGS initiative and formed the Ethical Committee. The group signed the good, clean and fair guidelines and the PGS pledge. In the same period, the Gurantee group carried out the field visits to the producer of Finca Rio Colorado.
Participatory Guarantee System 2023
At the end of 2022, for the harvest of 2022-2023, a bigger group of producers from the Cooperativa Cafetalera Capucas Limitada joined the Coffee Coalition PGS initiative already in place. In November 2022, Slow Food staff organized and in-person capacity building with producers and Cooperative’s staff, while also testing the tools (Guarantee Sheet) on 4 new producers that joined the Coffee Coalition PGS.
Between November and December 2022, twenty-four producers signed the pledge and received field visits from the Guarantee Group.
Lot: Doña Elda 2023
Microlot in Finca Rio Colorado
Quantity: 300 kg
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V.
Harvesting period: December 2022 – February 2023
Variety: 100% Parainema
Altitude: 1150 mt
Process: Natural, selective manual picking, 5 pickers, drying after 6 hours from harvesting Processing: natural drying on patio and green house
Description: Red berry jam, a hint of tropical fruits and a grapey scent, dark chocolate, good body and sweet.
Import service by: Interkom on May 2023
Distributor: BFarm, info@bfarm.it
Roasted by Bfarm, Dropstery, Brisa Coffee Roasters
Lot: Don Pancho 2023
Micro Lot
Quantity: 900 kg.
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V. GPS Data
Harvesting period: December 2022 – February 2023
Variety: 100% Parainema
Altitude: 1150 mt
Process: Honey. Depulping, after natural drying on patio and green house
Description: tropical fruit, red berries, honey, good body and sweetness.
Import service by: Interkom on May 2023
Distributor: BFarm, info@bfarm.it
Roasted by Bfarm, Critical Coffee, Brisa Coffee Roasters, Costatodoro, Tressessanta
Lot: Honduras 2023
Quantity: 20.000 kg.
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V.
Harvesting period: November 2022 – February 2023
Variety: Variety: Catuai, Parainema, Obata, Lempira
Altitude: 1100-1300 mt
Process: Semi-Washed
Description: Dark chocolate, biscuit with lemon peel, caramel, honey and tangerine citrusy medium and soft body. Moderate presence of typical citrus acidity with hints of pink grapefruit. Low bitterness with notes of cocoa and caramel. Aromas of cookie and brown sugar highlight the sweetness.
Imported by Kimbo SpA on the date 31/01/23
Roasted in Italy by KIMBO SpA for De’ Longhi
Price paid to the cooperative: 6,50 USD/kg
There are two roasting type:
Honduras Medium dark Roast For both dairy and plant-based preparations
Honduras Medium light Roast For Espresso, Coffee, Cold Brew
Lot: Platanares 2023
Quantity: 180 kg.
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V. GPS Data
Harvesting period: December 2022 – February 2023
Variety: 100% Parainema
Altitude: 1150 mt
Process: Natural. selective manual picking, 5 pickers, drying after 6 hours from harvesting Processing: natural drying on patio and green house Harvest
Description: fruity notes that remember ripe stone fruits jam, red cherries, a hint of tropical fruits and light winy, dark chocolate, good body and sweet..
Import service by: Interkom on May 2023
Distributor: BFarm, (info@bfarm.it)
Roasted by Bfarm, Critical Coffee
Lot: Rio Colorado 2023
Honduras washed SHG EP Special Lempira
Quantity: 1035 kg.
Coffee plantation: coffee trees under shadow
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V. GPS Data
Harvesting period: November 2022 – February 2023
Variety: 100% Lempira
Altitude: 1200-1300 mt
Process: Washed. manual picking, 25 pickers, depulping process maximum after 8 hours from harvesting. Processing: mechanical removal of the mucillage after depulping, 6-8 hours of light fermentation, washing and natural drying in green house with African beds and traditional clay patios.
Description: Medium and soft body . Moderate presence of typical citrus acidity with hints of pink grapefruit. Low bitterness with notes of cocoa and caramel. Aromas of cookie and brown sugar highlight the sweetness. Aroma/Aroma: Cioccolato fondente, note citriche, caramello, Dark chocolate, citrus notes, caramel
Import service by: Interkom on May 2023
Distributor: BFarm, info@bfarm.it
Roasted by: Bfarm
Honduras washed SHG EP Special Parainema
Quantity: 1035 kg.
Region: Copan western Honduras – San Pedro de Copan – Las Capucas, Celaque national park
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V. GPS Data
Harvesting period: November 2022 – March 2023
Variety: 100% Parainema
Altitude: 1100-1300 mt
Process: Washed. Picking: manual picking, 25 pickers, depulping process maximum after 8 hours from harvesting
Processing: mechanical removal of the mucillage after depulping, 6-8 hours of light fermentation, washing and natural drying in green house with African beds and traditional clay patios
Description: clean cup, good body and balanced with flavour of dark chocolate, biscuit with lemon peel, caramel, honey and tangerine citrusy, good acidity with citric and tartaric notes
Import service by: Interkom on May 2023
Distributor: BFarm, info@bfarm.it
Roasted by Bfarm, Dropstery, Gusto Top, Brisa Coffee Roasters
Lot: Terra Madre 2022
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Rio Colorado
Quantity: 480 kg.
Region: San Pedro de Copan, Copan
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V.
Harvesting period: November 2021 – February 2022
Variety: 50% Red Catuaì, 30% Lempira, 10% Bourbon, 10% Parainema
Altitude: 1200-1300 mt
Process: Manual picking, 25 pickers. Depulping process maximum after 8 hours from picking. Mechanical removal of the mucillage after depulping, 6 hours of light fermentation, natural drying on patio and green house with African beds and traditional clay patios.
Description: Medium and soft body . Moderate presence of typical citrus acidity with hints of pink grapefruit. Low bitterness with notes of cocoa and caramel. Aromas of cookie and brown sugar highlight the sweetness.
Roasted for Terra Madre by: b.farm; Gocce in Roastery.
Doña Elda
Quantity: 200kg.
Region: San Pedro de Copan, Copan
Farm: Finca Rio Colorado, Humami Area S.A. de C.V.
Harvesting period: November 2021 – February 2022
Variety: 100% Lempira.
Altitude: 1200-1300 mt
Process: Selective manual harvesting, 4 pickers, drying after 6 hours after harvest, Natural drying in greenhouse on African beds.
Description: Red berries jam, a hint of tropical fruits and vinous notes, dark chocolate. Medium and dense body, medium acidity.
Roasted for Terra Madre by: b.farm; Gocce in Roastery.
Blockchain
During harvest 2021-2022, this coffee took part in the first pilot of Blockchain applied to the Slow Food Coffee Coalition by Trusty. Click on the buttons below to see b.farm’sand Gocce in roastery’s blockchains.
