More Than Meets the Eye
Long before your coffee ever reaches your cup, two fingers gently picked a ripe coffee cherry from a tree on a mountainside in southern Honduras. Later, another pair of fingers carefully examined the beans, removing imperfections one by one. Those fingers belong to women whose skill and care produce exceptional coffee.
Building a Better Future, One Farm at a Time
For years, small coffee farmers in the La Botija Mountains of southern Honduras have faced the same problem. They could grow good coffee and work hard to care for their land, but when harvest came, they had very few options for selling it. The farms are small and scattered throughout the mountains, the roads are difficult, and many buyers simply didn’t find it worthwhile to make the trip.