Tolima

Fair Trade/Regenerative Organic Certified

Tolima is known for its small-acreage coffee farms and high altitude, and it is Colombia's second-largest coffee-producing region. We are proud to be working with Multicoop, a group of associations in southern Tolima that have united to share certification processes, internal control and administrative equipment. These shared resources allow for greater efficiencies and give smaller producers the ability to get their coffee to market. Multicoop chooses to work with women-led coffee associations, like ASAPROFUCAL, that support not only their immediate families but their community at large, which has been ravaged by conflict and violence related to the illegal drug trade.

Asociación Abierta de Productores al Futuro de Calarma (ASAPROFUCAL) is a cooperative of 94 small farms. Founded in 2018, this association of growers has standardized their production processes to create coffee that is consistent in the cup and maintains the floral notes, medium acidity and pronounced body that is characteristic of the south of Tolima. The beans are manually harvested, then fermented in a concrete tank between 24 and 30 hours, where they are left undisturbed to seal in their natural flavor characteristics. At that point, they're washed twice and dried in the sun in a canopy for 15 to 20 days.