Organic Mexico Chiapas
Organic Mexico Chiapas
A sweet and savory cup of caramel flavors
with mellow brown sugar and honey sweetness and a hint of green apple.
Harvest: December 2023 - March 2024
This lot comes to us from Yaxcoffee, an organization of specialty coffee producers in Chiapas, founded in 2011. Yaxcoffee is focused on improving the quality of life of the families of their producer members. They assist all members in the production, storage, processing and marketing of their high quality organic specialty coffee. YAX means "green" in the indigenous language Tzeltal. Yaxcoffee refers to the indigenous concept of the members of the cooperative who consider "Mother Earth" as the base of any life.
Today, Yaxcoffee has over 1500 specialty coffee producers. Most producers have between 1-2 hectares of land. Each Yaxcoffee producer depulps their coffee by hand before letting it dry on small patios in their homes or near their farms. A majority of the specialty coffee producers of Yaxcoffee are Tzeltales and Choles indigenous groups. They are strongly connected to the Maya culture, customs and traditions.
Chiapas is the southernmost region of Mexico. The mountains of this region span into bordering Guatemala and much of this tropical forest is the protected Triunfo Biosphere Reserve. This area is humid and tropical, inhabited by small communities of producers who have formed cooperatives to gain stronger representation in the coffee market. These producers take pride in their land, growing coffee organically through methods passed down from generation to generation.