Milk Chocolate, Stone Fruit, Brown Sugar, Dried Cherry, Marzipan
BODY
Light
ACIDITY
Bright
Farming Notes:
GEOGRAPHY
Region Huehuetenango
PRODUCER
Various women owned producers
VARIETY
Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai
PROCESSING
Washed
In 2016, La Morena Cooperative was established with a mission to give female coffee growers access to the global supply chain and to address gender inequality in coffee farming. The program started off small when four founding members (woman owned farms) shipped out 2000 pounds of green coffee beans (roughly 15 bags of coffee). It was a micro-lot by all accounts, but roasters were receptive, and the small lot quickly stocked out. The growers enjoyed success from that introduction to the market and their coffees became highly sought after. Fast forward to 2025; The La Morena Cooperative grew to over 800 women farmers spanning the coffee-growing regions of Huehuetenango and Baja Verapaz. What started as a micro-lot of coffee has blossomed into a platform that strongly addresses gender inequality in coffee.
Huehuetenango coffee is grown at heights up to 6,500 feet (2,000masl) in dry and frost-free conditions. By necessity, farmers in this highly remote area often set up their own mills along the many rivers to process their coffee.
