We have been coffee farmers for two years. We have invested in the coffee farm Finca Santa Rita in Nicaragua. A completely new experience that has had many impacts on our daily work. With our involvement in the coffee farm, we now operate across the entire cultivation chain. This makes our training even more practical. Everything we teach there is based on insights from our work.
We have been running gastronomic projects, including the Café frühling, for years, and we also have many years of professional experience as roasters. Through Santa Rita, we now also cover coffee agriculture.
In addition to the very practical experience of agriculture, botany, tree nursery, planting density, as well as harvesting and processing, we gain background knowledge and insights. This includes yield calculation, knowledge of production costs, and so on.
All of this also flows into our collaboration with other coffee producers and partners in other countries. The better we understand the dynamics and risks of coffee cultivation, the more we adapt our purchasing accordingly and approach negotiations differently, as well as calculate prices based on production costs. However, all of this is a learning journey, which we report on in this video.
Coffees we roast from Santa Rita: https://shop.kaffeemacher.ch/collections/santa-rita
