Our Honduran single origin coffee is grown in western Honduras, in the buffer zone of the Celaque National Park. This amazing nature reserve is a cloud forest containing the country’s highest mountain. This coffee is harvested at its optimum ripeness by the small farmers making up the Las Capucas Cooperative and handed in to be washed, dried in solar dryers, and stored in parchment before being trucked to the port of Puerto Cortés. Las Capucas was the first in the country to build a facility to dry microlot coffees in a large scale with solar dryers.
The COCAFCAL (Cooperativa Capucas Limitada) Cooperative, otherwise known as Las Capucas, represents many coffee farming communities from the municipalities of San Pedro and Corquin, in Copan. Together, they work to promote the sustainable development of their local economy with coffee funds to provide financial, technical, production, and marketing resources for members and families. These smallhold farmers banded together with the goal of reducing poverty and increasing standards of life for their community. Members are dedicated to growing sustainable conventional, organic and Fair Trade coffees. Las Capucas also produces its own complete line of organic fertilizers to help support the farming needs of the members.
Besides producing a delicious organic coffee, Las Capucas funds many initiatives to improve the lives of workers and the local community like providing a free medical/dental clinic and a local education center with a university program.
