Jorge Nery Espinoza Natural 72

This coffee was sold directly to Gringo Nordic and the coffee story has  been shared with Johan Ekfeldt directly.

I’M PART OF A FAMILY WITH ELEVEN SIBLINGS AND STARTED WORKING WITH MY DAD ON OUR COFFEE PLOT WHEN I WAS TEN.…

Although I continued to go to school for a few more years, there was hardly enough income to feed so many mouths, and someone needed to help on the land. 

Then, when I was sixteen, our dad died and I suddenly became responsible for the well-being of our entire family. To complicate things further, prices for coffee tumbled on the international market not much after that, and on top of that Honduras was affected by a wave of leaf rust. 

I had what one can call a tough start in life, but thankfully all that early hardship also molded me into a fighter, someone who won’t give up, regardless how big the obstacles on my path may be. Little by little, my brother Obdulio, my brother in law Francisco, and I became eligible for loans, which we used to expand our fincas, and to invest in our own wet mill and better agricultural practices.