Country: Honduras
Region: Entre Caminos, Marcala
Altitude: 1,700 masl
Variety: Icatu, Catuai
Processing: Natural
Producer : Pedro Erazo
Pedro has found great success at his other three farms, El Milagrito, La Sierra and
Las Flores. So much so that he has bought himself a fourth plot of land in which to
cultivate coffee. In 2018, Pedro bought one manzana of land near El Cedral village.
This manzana faces east, meaning it is bathed in sunlight all day until the early
afternoon when the sun moves behind the tree line and it is often covered by the
mists that settle around the mountains through the early evenings.
The farm is named Finca La Cima del Cielo, and is a wonderful example of how
the Project Origin auctions have benefitted producers in building a sustainable life
for themselves. The farm was purchased with the funds Pedro earned entering our
‘Best of Honduras: Late Harvest Auction’ and placing in 6th in 2016 resulting in his
coffee selling for USD9.10/lb that year. We are excited - as we are every harvest
- to present the lots from this manzana and from this talented producer, and we
continually look forward to seeing what Pedro will produce in the coming harvests.
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.