Ethan Ryan, our roaster extraordinaire, traveled to Guatemala for the first time in May to meet producer partners at the APECAFORM cooperative, learn about coffee harvesting and exporting, and generally polish up on his Spanish. It was his first time abroad. And his first time at coffee origin.
We are headed to a coffee farm named “Cual Bicicleta”, or “Which Bicycle”? I knew this wasn’t going to be a typical farm – actually nothing about Oscar Omar Alonzo Aguilar is typical! Oscar is a passionate soil advocate – his farm is an incredible living testament to the organic farmer’s mantra “Feed the soil.. let the soil feed the plant”. Take a few minutes to read Monika’s blog post chronicling her eye-opening visit to Oscar’s farm. We loved any opportunity to connect coffee and bicycling.. but didn’t expect to run across this connection in Honduras!