What is the secret to producing such outstanding coffee?
Fabio: I believe that it is the land (tierra) that generates quality. The soil. And the area’s micro-climate. Our responsibility, as farmers, is not to damage this – we must nurture what the land gives us. At Las Nubes we take great care of our coffee from the very beginning of the process, and we never harvest it when it is either too ripe or too green. Sonia: Because in the mill a single bean can cause major damage. If one bad bean slips through to be washed one day, and by chance that bean ends up in the sample we send you, that cup of coffee will turn out badly. And if that one cup turns out badly, that could lose us the whole shipment. One bean can damage everything. But we really don’t have a secret. What we want is for everyone to treat coffee the way we treat it. And to let women farm too. We can do a lot more than make tortillas and tidy the house. Because even if Fabio goes away, the finca stays behind, and it needs looking after. What challenges do you expect to face in the
