PRODUCT DETAILS
COLOMBIA EL JARDIN, LATE HARVEST
El Jardin is a coffee farm owned by Jorge Rojas. The farm is situated in the Planadas municipality in Tolima, a region in central western Colombia. This CFC subscription will be for Jorge's "fly crop" or late harvest. Like the main crop, the fly crop is a combination of two Caturra variety lots. Jorge focuses on organic farming practices, and hasn't used agrichemical inputs in over eight years. He is a member and employee of the ASOPEP cooperative, and has received ample cupping training. Jorge is driven by coffee quality and processing experimentation, and processes his coffee using an anaerobic style of fermentation. This process can give coffees dynamic flavor profiles, complex and well rounded. After processing and drying, the coffee is sold to Shared Source, who mills, exports, and imports the coffee.
RELATIONSHIP TO JUNIORS
This is the third year that we have worked with coffee from Jorge Rojas. We were first introduced to Jorge's coffee through the importer, Shared Source. Shared Source has been buying this coffee for several years. Based on this long standing relationship and Jorge's meticulous record keeping, Shared Source thought Jorge would make the perfect Cost of Production Covered Project partner. We aim to have each coffee in this subscription Cost of Production Covered, and aim to ensure that farmers receive 30% gross margin on their production costs from the coffee sold to subscribers.