Diego is the third generation running the farm, nowadays he helps his father Javier on managing. Diego has been changing the traditional varieties for new and exotic ones, such as Geisha, Ovata and F1. F1 represents a small part of the farm as it still testing variety for Diego. After the results from 2015/2016 he has decided to plant more F1 trees at his farm.
The F1 variety is a hybrid created by crossing Rumesudan and Ethiopian varities.
Diego decided to make ahoney process out of this lot because cherries ripened late in the harvest (Late Jan 2016) and he considered based on his experience that a honey would return a better profile. Coffee was dried on drying beds for a lapse of 20 days.
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