We are pleased to introduce you personally to one of our Colombian farmers we work with.
Hernan Becerra lives together with his siblings, their families, as well as their parents, wife and children in a radius of 250m and you can feel how connected they go about producing wonderful coffees.
The whole family is passionate dedicated to producing the best possible coffees with great care. When you meet Hernan, you can instantly feel the strong connection between him and his land.
Hernan is a part from the cooperative Red Ecolsierra.
The cooperative has 3 goals:
1) Regeneration of the Colombian community after the devastating civil war that raged for decades in Colombia; the cooperative was awarded for this effort the national prize “Emprender Paz” in 2017
2) Regeneration of the biosphere of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a UNESCO protected reserve, the world’s highest coastal mountain, and the world’s most irreplaceable protected area
3) Innovation in the area of improvement of the quality of specialty coffee
Red Ecolsierra stands for “La Red de Productores Ecológicos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta” – The Network of Organic Producers in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
“For us, as coffee producers, it is not only important to grow coffee, but to reestablish peace and reinstate hope in the hearts of our families, who so desperately need it.”
