Honduras - Los Laureles Washed
Honduras - Los Laureles Washed
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Honduras - Los Laureles Washed
Region: San Sebastián, Lempira
Producer: Anastacio Benítez Díaz
Varietal: Red Catuaí, Pacas
Altitude: 1800 MASL
Process: Washed
We Taste: Milk Chocolate, Jasmine Tea, Limeade
Light Roast
Anastacio is a producer from the community of Gualdalla, a very humble village located in the municipality of San Sebastian, Lempira, where he lived the first 6 years of his life until his parents decided to move to San Sebastian for him to attend school.
Three years later, the family had to move once again, this time to the community of Plan del Limon, Carrizalito, where Anastacio traveled several kilometers to get to the school in the community of Agua Fría, which he attended until fourth grade as he ended up dropping out of school and decided to work next to his father in the cultivation of basic grains.
At the age of 15 years old, he planted his first coffee trees on a half-hectare in an area called El Izote and by 1998, he had harvested the first cherries. He invested the profits earned in fertilizers and to continue expanding the land until he completed the entire hectare. Today, Anastacio, his parents and brothers are engaged in the production and trading of coffee, which now sums up 14.79 hectares of production. They have also improved the processes throughout the years by using a wooden wet mill and building concrete patios and covered raised beds to dry coffee.
In December 2020, with the help of Boncafé (Rival Brothers' exporting partners in Honduras), Anastacio acquired an ecological wet mill to process his coffee. This allows him to depulp and wash the coffee all at once, saving a lot of time and most importantly, water. The eco wet mill also works for the re-process of the pulp converting it into organic fertilizer to be applied to the coffee trees in his farm. He states that he is very happy with this new improvement and looks forward to continuing to support his family and neighbors with this new technology as they all come to his mill to process their coffees as well.
