We have been coffee farmers for two years now. We have invested in the Finca Santa Rita coffee farm in Nicaragua. A completely new experience that has had many effects on our daily work. With our stake in the coffee farm, we are now active throughout 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, for example, Café frühling for years, and we also have many years of professional experience as roasters. Through Santa Rita, we now also cover coffee agriculture.
In addition to the very practical experiences of agriculture, botany, nurseries, planting density, as well as harvesting and processing, there are backgrounds and insights that we gain. This includes yield calculation, knowledge of production costs, etc.
All of this also flows into our collaboration with other coffee producers and partners in other countries. The better we know the dynamics and risks of coffee cultivation, the more we adapt our purchasing to them, approach conversations differently, and calculate prices based on production costs. However, all of this is a learning process, which we report on in this video.
Coffees roasted by us from Santa Rita: https://shop.kaffeemacher.ch/collections/santa-rita
