Farm: Finca Monte Verde
Producers: Hilda Morena Valdez de Contreras and Rene Contreras
Farm size: 35 hectares
Location: Monte Verde town (next to El Chingo volcano), Santa Ana department, El Salvador, Apaneca-Illamatepec
Mountain Range Altitude: 1100 - 1250 m
Soil: Alluvial clay loam
Harvest season: November to February
Average yearly rainfall: 1400 - 1600 ml
Average temperatures: 15C - 30C
Average age of trees: 3 - 30 years old
Cultivated varieties: Red and Yellow Bourbon, Pacas, Anacafé-14
Monte Verde is one of my family's farms and it is managed by my mom Hilda and my father Renee Contreras. The farm has been in my family since the days of my great-grandfather, a Guatemalan sugar cane producer who came to El Salvador in the late 1800s to marry my great-grandmother, a coffee producer. We process all the coffees from our farms in wet mill inside Monverde farm focusing on micro-lots. As a company, we invest in social projects and education at El Paste school. We organize free medical care days to provide appointments to the workers and supply them monthly bags with basic food items.
