Bean Origins

Francisco De Sola owns a 100-hectare farm in El Salvador, with 14 hectares dedicated to 60,000 coffee trees and additional land for lumber production. The farm harvests coffee between January and March, processing washed coffees with mechanical demucilaging and naturals dried as whole cherries on raised African beds. Known as “the land of volcanoes,” El Salvador is a small but renowned specialty coffee producer, with its coffee industry flourishing since the late 1800s. Santa Ana, the country’s most productive region, has historically hosted large estates and mills, where producers cultivate traditional, new, and Kenyan varieties using both washed and natural processing methods.