La Huerta renovations

2016

Planting parainema

In 2017, I also supported the manager of Ha Luerta by financing the renovation of his farm. He had planned to new plants of the parainema varietal, with the total cost sitting around $1000 USD.

His land was sitting empty for a long time, as he could not afford to pay for new trees, fertilizers and other tools needed to make this area actually possible to farm.

His harvest will be ready in 2020 and he will finally be able to get more income form this farm. This will help the local community, as he will create more jobs with pickers and other workers receiving work on the farm. I look forward to tasting his coffee in 2020!

2015

Improvements to the farm

After I won the World Barista Championship in 2015, I decided to donate money to La Huerta. This money was donated so that they could purchase stainless tanks, support the renovation of the mill and also purchase two large African beds.

In total, it was about $5500 USD – it may not seem like a lot of money in the long run, but it has made a lot of positive difference at the farm and we have since seen a great improvement in the quality of the coffee there.

2014

Finca La Huerta

Santa Barbara is one of my favourite producing regions in the world. It has been my pleasure to visit there many times over the years, and to have establish close relationships with communities and farm there.

Finca La Huerta (‘the garden’) farm is approximately 40 ha and located in Santa Barbara, Honduras. When I first started working together with the Lanza family, who manage the farm, they had very small facilities and did not have enough space to process their coffee.

The mill was old and not functioning properly, and they also didn’t have enough african beds to dry the coffee properly. I knew that there was such incredible potential for the coffee from this farm, given that they had the right resources.