Colombia, Single Origin

Colombia boasts more than half a million coffee farmers producing anywhere from 10 to 25 bags on 870,000 hectares, with many lots as small as 50kg.
There are very few estate coffees, sixty percent of Colombian coffee farmers cultivate their trees on less than one hectare of land. Most of the coffee shipped from Colombia is a blend of the production from 50 or more individual farms. While this situation is typical of cooperatives in other coffee producing countries, it is unusual, and on Colombia's scale, unique for it to be the dominant method.

Generally, given the vast complexity and variety of coffees coming from this origin, Colombian coffees can be characterised as sweet and big bodied with notes of caramel and balanced fruitiness. Coffee farming in Colombia is, to put it quite simply, woven into the fabric of everyday life. People farm the land, producing most of the food and raising the animals that they eat. Money from coffee farming provides cash to improve homes, buy clothes, maintain their cars, motorcycles and equipment and buy necessities for their children. Without the extra income that coffee provides, these farmers would be subsistence farmers.