Guatemala Proyecto Xinabajul Bojonalito

This lot comes from the community of Bojonalito in the municipality of La Libertad, Huehuetenango. Altitude in this area spans a range of roughly 1500 meters in town, on up to about 1800 meters in the surrounding hillsides. Like most of the coffee communities in the area, farmers of Bojonalito plant Bourbon and Caturra types for the most part, with the occasional Typica mixed in. Coffee processing is handled at the farmer's home or the home of a neighbor, and then the coffee is patio dried. The dry parchment is transported down to Huehue town where it is dry milled and prepared for final export out of the country. We spent many hours at the cupping table sorting through small producer lots from the region in order to put these 21 bags together. This is part of our "Proyecto Xinabajul", a project started with the intent of reaching small coffee producers in the distant mountain towns of Huehuetenango. It's been going strong for nearly a decade now, and you can read an in-depth and detailed description of the project HERE.