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Las Familias Jinotega

In the Jinotega region, there are a collection of smallholder producers, working with their families to grow coffee. This lot is a mixture of over 40 farms in this region. Our exporting partner in Nicaragua, Gold Mountain, are working with these producers to help them increase their income and create futures for their families.

These producers will generally grow vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, corn, beans, cabbage, and lettuce with their coffee to diversify income. Some producers even have small stores to sell dry goods, as well.

  • Farm Las Familias Jinotega
  • Varietal Caturra, Red Catuai, Yellow Catuai
  • Process Fully washed
  • Altitude 1,300 – 1,450 metres above sea level
  • Town / City Various
  • Region Jinotega
  • Owner Various
  • Tasting Notes Cherry, Lemon, Vanilla Wafer
  • Farm Size 3 hectares on average
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Las Familias Jinotega

During the harvest, each producer will carefully pick the ripe cherries and sort. Next, the cherries are delivered to the wet mill, to be further sorted, pulped with a machine to remove the external fruit. Each producer has their own wet mill facilities within their farms. The freshly pulped coffee is moved to large cement tanks to ferment, breaking down the sticky mucilage. The coffee is then washed in channels to remove any remaining mucilage or foreign matter. Once clean, the coffee is dispersed on raised beds to dry in the open sun for 12 days. Normally, producers will process and partially dry their coffee before delivering to the Gold Mountain partner mill to complete processing. After the ideal moisture content is reached, the coffee is rested at the dry mill before being hulled and prepared for export.

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Introduced into the country in the mid-1800s and forming a central position in the country’s economy for more than a century, coffee is currently Nicaragua’s primary export. Its production generates over $448 million dollars a year in exports, representing 8.2% of overall exports, and provides more than 200,000 jobs to locals.

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