For two years now, we have been coffee farmers. We have acquired a stake in the coffee farm Finca Santa Rita in Nicaragua. It’s a completely new experience that has many implications for our daily work. By investing in the coffee farm, we are now active across the entire cultivation chain. This makes our training courses even more practical. Everything we teach there is based on insights from our own work.
We have been running gastronomic projects with, among others, Café Frühling for years, and we also have many years of professional experience as roasters. Thanks to Santa Rita, we now also cover coffee farming.
In addition to the very practical experiences in agriculture, botany, tree nurseries, planting density, as well as harvesting and processing, we gain background information and insights. This includes yield calculation, knowledge of production costs, etc.
All of this also influences our collaboration with other coffee producers and partners in other countries. The better we understand the dynamics and risks of coffee cultivation, the more we adapt our purchasing accordingly, engage in different conversations, and calculate prices based on production costs. However, all of this is a learning journey, which we discuss in this video.
Coffees roasted by us from Santa Rita: https://shop.kaffeemacher.ch/collections/santa-rita
