🇭🇳 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

Quantity300 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

Quantity20.000 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.

DescriptionMedium 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 

Quantity1035 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.