Toasted Almond. Red Apple. Sugar Cane.

Farm: Cachoeira
Country: Brazil
Region:  Cerrado Mineiro
Altitude: 1,050 masl
Variety: Yellow Catuai
Processing: Natural

Farmer: Danilo Barbosa
Sourced Through: Southland Merchants

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In Minas Gerais, nestled within the core of the Cerrado Mineiro region, Sucuri Farm stands as a testament to unwavering familial dedication.

Owned and managed by Danilo Barbosa, the farm sprawls across a landscape meticulously balancing commercial farming with environmental preservation. With 500 hectares allocated for production and over 700 hectares set aside as preserved areas,

Sucuri Farm epitomises responsible land management. 

Sucuri Farm's journey is a tribute to the dreams and relentless effort of Danilo Barbosa and his family. Emerging from humble beginnings, Danilo's parents, Jairo Barbosa de Paula, transitioned from gas station attendants to owners, using their savings to venture into agriculture. Innovation and sustainability Sucuri Farm's success is rooted in its dedication to innovation and quality. Under Danilo's leadership, the farm acknowledges the important role of terroir, altitude, and climate in producing exceptional coffee.

This commitment to excellence extends to sustainable practices embracing
initiatives such as tree planting for erosion prevention and beekeeping for pollination. These efforts underscore the farm's commitment to environmental stewardship and quality. In 1980, Danilo and his father planted their first coffee trees by hand, marking the beginning of their agricultural odyssey. Over time, their holdings expanded, and today, the Barbosa family oversees an impressive expanse of more than 2,000 hectares.

 

praline, white chocolate and blackberry.

Farm: Fartura
Country: Brazil
Region: Cerrado Mineiro
Altitude: 1,050 masl
Variety: Rubi
Processing: Anaerobic Natural
Farmer: Geraldo Magelis
Sourced Through: Southland Merchants

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Fazenda Fartura is a story of resilience and family unity rooted in the highlands of Serra do Salitre, in the Cerrado Mineiro region of Brazil. The foundation of the farm was laid in 1986, when Geraldo Magelis Alves de Melo and his wife, Angela, transformed what began as subsistence farming into a dedicated coffee operation. Through discipline, persistence and long-term vision, they built the structure that defines Fartura today.

In 2013, the next generation stepped in. Their sons, Djalma and Gabriel, assumed management, carrying the family legacy forward with a clear focus on quality, sustainability and strict adherence to certification standards. The transition marked a shift from traditional farming to a more technical and market-oriented specialty coffee mindset.

Fartura’s inclusion in the Essências program reflects this evolution — positioning the farm within a curated selection of producers committed to traceability, structured management and quality-driven production.The lot currently promoted is a Rubi variety, processed through anaerobic fermentation, scoring 87.5 points. 

Fazenda Fartura represents over four decades of family dedication — now led by a new
generation committed to refining process, protecting heritage and delivering consistent specialty coffee from Serra do Salitre.

 

For our seasonal blend we combine transparently traded and single origin coffees to create something both delicious and dependable. For more information on the individual blend components click on the links above!

The coffee beans in this blend began as the seeds of coffee cherries - the seasonal fruit of a tropical forest shrub, grown predominantly in East Africa, Central and South America and Southeast Asia. before being roasted by us, those raw seeds had to be nurtured, carefully hand picked when ripe, fermented, dried and exported. It is a long supply chain fraught with difficulties - that sip of coffee you're enjoying began a long way away and is the result of the hard work of many people.

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Dried Plum. Dark Chocolate. Orange Zest.

Farm: Sucuri
Country: Brazil
Region:  Cerrado Mineiro
Altitude: 1,050 masl
Variety: Topazio
Processing: Aerobic Natural

Farmer: Danilo Barbosa
Sourced Through: Southland Merchants

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In Minas Gerais, nestled within the core of the Cerrado Mineiro region, Sucuri Farm stands as a testament to unwavering familial dedication.

Owned and managed by Danilo Barbosa, the farm sprawls across a landscape meticulously balancing commercial farming with environmental preservation. With 500 hectares allocated for production and over 700 hectares set aside as preserved areas,

Sucuri Farm epitomises responsible land management. 

Sucuri Farm's journey is a tribute to the dreams and relentless effort of Danilo Barbosa and his family. Emerging from humble beginnings, Danilo's parents, Jairo Barbosa de Paula, transitioned from gas station attendants to owners, using their savings to venture into agriculture. Innovation and sustainability Sucuri Farm's success is rooted in its dedication to innovation and quality. Under Danilo's leadership, the farm acknowledges the important role of terroir, altitude, and climate in producing exceptional coffee.

This commitment to excellence extends to sustainable practices embracing
initiatives such as tree planting for erosion prevention and beekeeping for pollination. These efforts underscore the farm's commitment to environmental stewardship and quality. In 1980, Danilo and his father planted their first coffee trees by hand, marking the beginning of their agricultural odyssey. Over time, their holdings expanded, and today, the Barbosa family oversees an impressive expanse of more than 2,000 hectares.

 

Country: Kenya
Region: Nyeri County, Central Region
Altitude: 1,650 ~ 1,800 masl
Variety: SL28 & SL34
Processing: Washed
Producer : Aguthi Farmer's Co-operative Society

Sourced Through: Project Origin

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The Thageini wet mill is one of four mills operated by the Aguthi Farmer’s Cooperative Society. It is the second largest mill in terms of member producers, with
around 350 men and 100 women members, and the Aguthi Farmer’s Co-operative
Society has around 2000 members total. The Society provides training for their
members on techniques for farm management, picking, sorting and agronomic
techniques. They hold workshops for members to meet and learn from each other
and provide specific advice to producers on their farm where possible.
In the time we have worked with Thageini, Project Origin has engaged a number of projects focused on community and infrastructure development. In 2018,
Thageini provided Project Origin with a range of exceptional washed coffees,
and it was then that we decided to invest in the infrastructure at this station to
create new experiences from this farm, while also having access to further the
education of this team. In 2019 we began setting up carbonic maceration infrastructure with the Aguthi Farmer’s Co-operative Society at Thageini mill, and we
also funded the construction of new drying beds to further improve their facilities
and, resultantly, coffee quality.
The Aguthi Farmer’s Co-operative Society demonstrates values that align with
ours: Quality, Sustrainability and Community, through their focus on community
development and the improvement of their members’ coffees. Project Origin and
this Society have worked together since 2017 to further implement these values
to bring you another wonderful taste of Kenya.

Project Origin is a company that uses green coffee beans to empower people, so together we can change the world we see.

Throughout our history we have met hundreds of extraordinary people from all over the world. We have supplied roasters and baristas with a substantial variety of coffees, invested in dozens of community projects that improve the livelihoods of individuals and communities, and developed new processing techniques that can both build better economic sustainability for producers and offer consumers a whole new range of flavour experiences. All of these accomplishments have been possible thanks to the heart and mind of our founder, Saša Šestić, and by how he responded to that question.

“Can you try a sample of my family’s coffee?” When Pathy Kasiviswanathan first visited Saša at the ONA headquarters in 2010, he simply wanted a review on his family’s coffees to help him begin a wholesale trade of green beans in Australia. Thalanar Estate is a coffee producing farm in South India that sold its beans as a commodity product to the local mill, meaning the beans were mixed with a range of other green beans from other farms, and no-one really knew where it ended up. Saša agreed to try the samples, and when he did, he considered the coffees to taste perhaps better than the Indian coffee he was currently using. This was a positive tasting – but to Saša’s surprise, Pathy had never before tasted these coffees himself! In fact, no one at the farm knew what it was they were producing. Saša and ONA coffee were already buying coffees directly from some producers, but this opportunity saw the potential to invest in more than direct trade green beans.