Medium

This coffee is grown by members of the Nasa Indigenous peoples of Vereda de la Cruz, Togoima Reservation, Tierradentro, Cauca, Colombia.

The Liz-Andela family works with 32 families in their neighbourhood, building on longstanding relationships and buying coffee cultivated organically and processed as semiwashed. The varieties often included are: caturra, v.Colombia, castillo, cenicafe 1, tabi, and bourbon (red and yellow). The quantities of each are in constant flux, yet the profile remains remarkably similar. Currently, the blend is tabi dominant.

Coffee is harvested by hand, floated for quality, and pulped with very little water. The resulting parchment has a reddish hue to it, and it's dried for an average of 1 month in marquesina (green house). The Liz-Andela family purchases all coffees for a minimum of 10% above market rate and blend and store it in parchment in their warehouse in Bogota.

Organic (not certified)

Price Paid to Native Root: $12.50CAD/kg (Green Coffee)
Import and Transport Fees: $3.70CAD/kg
Our final price, including 15% weight loss in the roasting process, is $18.63/CAD/kg

This coffee was cultivated by members of the Nasa Community of the Togoima Reservation and exported by Ervin Liz of Native Root Coffee and Imported by LULO.

The purchase prices that the Liz-Andela family works with while buying parchment average about 30% above market value.