COLOMBIA Passiflora

Planadas is the largest town south of Tolima, but is still isolated and lacking in infrastructure; a cause and result of the narcotics conflicts that have come to define this region. 35 farming families have banded together with developer/exporter/partner Cedro Alto to change that, to build on a culture of coffee growing curiosity, and to repurpose their incredibly rich ecological heritage.

Karl, who founded Cedro Alto with the aim of working with small coffee farmers who were growing very high-quality coffee but didn’t always have the ability to get that coffee to specialty roasters (and get a price that was congruent to the quality of the coffee they were producing), their coffee often ending up “blended in” to coffee from many other small and much larger producers, losing unique profiles along the way.

puts a strong focus on transparency in the supply train. Their ethos perfectly aligns with our values.

Working collaboratively with farmers, this micro-regional coffee aims to incentivise sustainable high quality production by achieving prices that improve the quality of life for farmers and their families whilst adding value to roasters through transparency.

We love the effort that has gone into this traceable micro-regional production.