Our Farmers
Farmer to Farmer’s coffee project is committed to developing markets for really good coffee, grown sustainably by farmers in Central America. By forging new relationships and marketing opportunities, these innovative farmers are able to improve their lives. They are proud to educate their children, support their communities and maintain the dignity of their ancestral traditions.
Farmer to Farmer pays above “fair trade” prices to contribute to the efforts of local people to build a diverse and sustainable economy.
Mt. Comayagua, Honduras
Our Organic Honduran Cloudforest coffee is a delicious, well-balanced blend, with excellent flavor in both Medium and French roasts. The coffee is grown adjacent to the Mt. Comayagua National Park. By farming organically, these farmers are actively participating in preserving this threatened cloudforest.
Andy Gaertner, our former board president, spent three years in Honduras with the Peace Corp working with these farmers. He’s excited to have renewed friendships there. These farmers have been struggling for years to get a fair price for their coffee. Farmer to Farmer is happy to be able to offer them a far higher price as well as access to North American markets.
Our direct relationship is the best way to ensure the farmers get the price they deserve for their coffee while they continue to preserve the cloudforest of Mt. Comayagua.
Francisco Alvarado Medina
Don Chico has a little over four acres of organic coffee in El Sute, Honduras, and is converting more land into organic production. He has chickens, pigs, horses, and a few milk cows, and he collects manure to make prepared composts.
Don Adalid Zavala
Don Adalid, is former president of COFEACOMA, and he recently passed the reins to his son, Alex (Disney). Don Adalid is still involved in the co-op and still builds and repairs machines such as coffee de-pulpers and coffee roasters. He’s very innovative and resourceful and often is able to build fully functioning machines from scrap metal and second-hand parts. He’s a quiet, hardworking man.
Don Arnulfo
Don Arnulfo and his family live in the village of El Sute, high on the southeast side of the Comayagua Mountain Range. Don Arnulfo's coffee reflects a high level of care and consistently scores amongst the highest.
Don Leopolo (Polo) Euceda
There was a wave of enthusiasm around El Tamarindo for the organic coffee co-op COFEACOMA. There were meetings and visits to coffee farms. From that group of farmers only Don Polo is left. The organic coffee route is not easy.
Benito Perez
Benito (pictured) and his brother Maximo (Moncho) Perez are producers for the coffee co-op in, Las Moras. Benito is shy and all the coffee farmers in the co-op know it, but they also know that his coffee is consistently rated with the highest cupping scores in the co-op.
Román Hernandez
Román farms in Los Cedros, and is one of the old guard of the coffee co-op. When the organic coffee co-op first started many farmers, like Román, were organic by default. They had never used chemicals and had their coffee already growing under shade trees.