Educational Videos

Progresso Farms, Mucuge Brazil from Noah N on Vimeo.

This is one video from a series of farm specific videos made by Cafe Imports. This video was shot during the Barista Champ Origin Trip 2011 to Brazil. It features Progresso Farms.

Fazenda Progresso Started with production of soy bean. Beans failed due to lack of rain and no irrigation. Potatoes were a success though.

1984 farm started, coffee started 2005

The Borre Family found this region, but at the time it was not advanced with agriculture.

Products: Coffee, potatoe, tomatoe, onion

1010 meters altitude

Region: Chipata diamantina

Closet city: Mucuge

Climate: distinct seasons good rain

Varietal: 80% Catui, sabia, & topazu

This is a new area for coffee, and they are experimenting with varietals

Managing maturation with different varietals.

100% irrigated

Drops 10 C at night.

Avg Rainfall: 1000 mm

Distinct Microclimate

Size: 22000 hectares total, 850 hectares coffee. (producing 600 hectares now due to young trees)

Area is a Bioma: they made one unique reserve for the coffee land between all the coffee farmers. 20% of their land is dedicated to the reserve. 100m from each side of the river is untouchable.

Manual picking. They have 400 people hand picking coffee. The coffee is extremely uniform and well picked. The Catuai varietal is extremely dense with many many cherries on each arm.

They take very good care of their pickers. They have restaurant, bathrooms, and bus service for the employees. It is a family company with family values.

Annual production is 3 million kilos.

All wet and dry milling is done on site in a brand new facility.
 

Here is a video featuring the Brazilian farmer Valdir Fereirra from Fazenda Sitio Boa Vista, just outside of Pocos de Caldas, Brasil.  This video is from our July 2011 trip with the baristas.  Enjoy!

This video was taken by Piero of Cafe Imports during his most recent visit to Granja La Esperanza in Colombia.  This video highlights the production of their exquisite Geisha variety.  We have this coffee now, ID3734 and ID3733

Tim and Sally took a group of clients down to Guatemala in February 2011.

This is footage from their trip!

Cafe Imports is so proud to have won the auction for the #1 coffee in the 2011 Colombia Cup of Excellence. Here is a photo montage of our visit with Arnulfo!

Andrew took the amazing trek to visit with these incredible farmers in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in Northern Colombia.  Their coffee is now available! 

ID 3190, Teyuna 

The cup is much richer than most Colombians.  It has dark chocolate, tobacco, honey, and roasted peanut in the cup.  This coffee has milder acidity than many of our other Colombian microlots from Huila and other regions.  This is a very unique project, and we are very proud to work with the Kogui Tribe in Colombia!

Andrew visited the farmers of Asociacion Los Naranjos de San Augustin in Huila, Colombia December 2010.  This video is from his visit to some of the small farmers in the area.  This area is where Colombian Microlots ID 3104-3112 came from.

Enjoy!

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This video was taken in July 2010 during Noah and Tim's Trip to Peru.

CENFROCAFE is a Peruvian coop in San Ignacio, Northern Peru