Roxana first planted coffee at her 5-hectare farm San Lorenzo in 2019. The farm is located in Caravani, La Paz, in the Andes Range. This lot was processed using the natural anaerobic method. Once harvested, coffee cherries are washed & sorted, placed in a sealed oxygen free containers to ferment & then spread out to dry on raised beds for 15-20 days. This method produces ripe fruity flavours with increased acidty.
In 1931, a British ambassador picked a selection of coffee berries in Southwest Ethiopia near a village called Gesha. In 1932 seeds from these plants were sent to Kenya. In 1936 seedlings were sent to Uganda & Tanzania. In the mid 50's seeds were sent from Tanzania to Costa Rica, where trials began. In 1963 Don Pachi Serracin brought some Geisha seeds to Panama, but attempts to grow Geisha were axed due to poor flavour, [most likely caused by the plants growing at too low an altitude]. Geisha, was then forgotten about until 2002 when Daniel Peterson from Hacienda Esmerada decided to cup coffee from different parts of his farm & came across this extraordinary coffee we know as Geisha.
Workers pruning coffee shrubs at San Lorenzo.
Wet mill at San Lorenzo.
Roxana Chambi at San Lorenzo.
Farm worker in the nursery at San Lorenzo.
Walking through San Lorenzo.
Farm dog.
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