Impressions: orange, almond, cacao, vanilla, clove
Roast degree: light-medium (3/5)
 
Country: Guatemala
Region: Casillas, Santa Rosa
Farm: El Durazno
Farmer: Luis Roldan
Variety: Red Caturra
Process: Washed
Partner importer: Semilla

The coffees we buy from Luis hold a special place for us at Rabbit Hole. It is the first coffee we bought from the Cafe Colis Resistancia group in Guatemala. This groups of Indigenous Xinka people are interested in developing an international market for their coffee, and therefore finally receiving fair prices for their work.
From buying 14 bags 4 years ago, we are now buying closer to 100bags from this group. Coffee can be a force for good, and buying as much as possible from initiative combatting the extractive nature of coffee is essential.

The group is also actively involved in resistance against the illegal exploitation of a silver mine by Vancouver-based Pan-American Silver. This Canadian company wants to go ahead and exploit the mine on Indigenous land despite being in contravention of the United Nations Declarations of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
We are proud to join Semilla in their efforts to stand on the side of Indigenous sovereignty and landing our support for this producing group. Not only does Semilla buy the coffees well above market prices, they also lend their voices as Canadians against this illegal extractive project.
Buying this coffee has an impact well beyond taste or the raw material itself.

About Luis:
Luis, an agricultural engineer by trade and a university teacher who ran for mayor in Casillas, is an active member of the Mataquescuintla resistance group.
He was instrumental last year in using his contacts with local NGOs to acquire an eco-pulper, which allows producers to not only process their coffee to parchment in their own beneficios but also to do so with a minimal amount of water, given that the whole region has been drought-stricken for years and water is a precious commodity.

250g bag.