222 | La Peña

Producer
Aura Diaz		Description
Molasses, caramel, chocolate, Stone fruit
Process
Washed		Varietals
Castillo, Cenicafe, Papayo
Region
Nariño		Elevation
1,900 meters
Position
Spot		Warehouse
Continental, New Jersey
Aura has been working with coffee for more than 23 years. She is grateful to coffee for giving her a second chance after she was displaced from the neighboring state of Putumayo in 2001. She began with just 2,000 trees, gradually adding 500 to 1,000 each year. Today, she cares for 11,000 trees across the Castillo, Papayo, and Pink Bourbon varietals.

Aura lives in La Peña with her husband, Wilson, and their three children—Jonathan, Byron, and Angie. The family works together on the farm: they pick only the ripest cherries, depulp them the same day, allow them to ferment overnight, and then wash the coffee before drying it on a sun-drenched patio.

Now that she has fulfilled her goal of planting coffee throughout the entire farm, Aura hopes to focus on improving their facilities—starting with building an additional drying patio.
Above all, Aura is thankful that coffee has allowed her to educate her children and improve her family’s quality of life.



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