Green Guatemala Ella

GREEN UNROASTED COFFEE

Region: San Marcos, Fraijanes, Santa Rosa Nuevo Oriente

Producer: Ella - Women Producers of Guatemala

Farm: Armenia Lorena, La Joya Grande, Santa Rita, Huehuetenango

Altitude: 1400-1750 meters

Varietal(s): Bourbon, Caturra, Catuaí

Process: Washed

Roast Level: Full City 

Tasting Notes: brown sugary sweetness, full creamy body, orange and berries, pleasant nuttiness 

For more than a decade we've cultivated deep relationships with a few women farm owners around our home in Huehuetenango. For decades producers like Ana Maria Ortega and Paty Perez have shown us the special strength, resiliency, and generosity of women in key leadership roles at the farm level.

Across Guatemala, women are the majority labor force on coffee farms, from picking to export. And around the world women comprise up to 70% of farm work while owning disproportionately few assets and land. Despite limited access, discrimination and violence, many women have forged their own paths for their families through their coffee farms. As part of our initiative to diversify our sourcing, provide market access, and highlight the stories of powerful women, we bring you ELLA - Women Producers of Guatemala.

Through our QC Lab in Guatemala City, we're expanding our reach while doing due diligence necessary to invest in long-term partnerships empowering more women producers. As we find outstanding farms in sync with our ethos, we'll begin to feature them singularly, such as Doña Sofia from Finca Armenia Lorena. The
ELLA blend will be a curation of women-produced lots we're onboarding, with a brown sugary sweetness, full creamy body, orange and berries, pleasant nuttiness, classic crowd-pleasing vibes all around.

- Onyx Coffee Importers