Finca El Recuerdo - Acatenango - Gesha - Natural

Located in the Acatenango Valley, in the Balam Juyu hills; Mr. Pedro Mendez owner of "El So-corro" a farm that extended through 2,060 hectares (ha) which Mr. Melendez decided to inherit to his 4 children. In that moment the farm was diversified into the following prod-ucts: Corn, Bean, Sugar cane, Cattle, Forest, and Coffee.
My great grandfather, Fidel Melendez, changed the name to his farm's part and named it Monte de Oro, inferring to the great fertility of the farm ground. Fidel Melendez in-herit to my grandfather Ricardo Melendez who intensified the coffee growing, which then be-came a single crop farm. In this process was introduced new varieties and techniques of coffee crop. In 1980 my grandfather passed away, and then came the time for my mother Ericka Melendez to take over the farm’s admin-istration. It's important to note that she was the first lady in the area who administrated a coffee farm with success, back then it was the civil war epoch in Guatemala. Even though all the threats and problems which cause this in-tern conflict my mother didn't give up, and ran the farm with success. In 2008, my mother and my father, Mario Rene Alarcón Aguilar, decided that it was time to give the farm a refresh, and that it was the time for me to take the admin-istration. My name is Mario (because of my fa-ther) Ricardo (because my grandfather), Alar-con Melendez and I'm the 5th generation who has been on charged of the farm.