Honduras: Marcala [Natural]
£7.00
Our Honduras Natural is an incredibly rich flavourful coffee, with notes of sweet red fruit acidity and deep mulled wine, it’s suitable for any cup that needs some kick. Utilising a medium to light roast profile it’s bursting full of rich fruit flavours with a bit of a fun Natural wine like funk. Grown 1200 - 1600 m.a.s.l, processed and dried naturally under the sun.
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Harvest & Sourcing: Honduras has largely been known for its conventional manner for coffee production, with heavy reliances on chemical input to support mass scale production, with the vast majority of produced coffee being low cost and going into the commodity or commercial market. COMSA founded in 2001 by 69 farmers were seeking ways to improve the quality of their coffee, and increase its value to better support those growing it. COMSA set out to encourage quality and organic, chemical free agriculture, and over time they have built their volumes and their quality and now the 1200 members produce specialty grade organic coffee and own their own warehouses and processing plant. The group is very focussed on social development as well as the agricultural; they have a primary school and run organic education courses for farmers from other parts of the country and region. In recent years, looking for new, quality focussed markets the cooperative has developed a programme for the production of natural processed coffees – in 2019 when Trade Aid visited, they produced 14 full containers of natural coffee in response to demand. |