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Nestled in the mountains between San Jose and Cartago in the famed Central Valley of Costa Rica.

Huehuetenango is the furthest north region in Guatemala, right next to Chiapas Mexico. It is also the most mountainous region in Central America. It is the most famous coffee growing region in Guatemala for good reason.

Finca El Socorro is a coffee farm of unsurpassable beauty in the highlands of Central Guatemala roughly 50 kilometers from Guatemala City.  

El Socorro itself is a working farm established in the early 1960s with cows, chickens and food crops all being maintained and grown on-site and alongside coffee bushes.  It is located in a high-altitude tropical highland forest with many native trees providing shade for the coffee bushes themselves. All coffee is grown under multiple layers of native shade trees of the zone, just to maintain the biodiversity intact. That has been one big factor that has improved the quality of our cup.

El Socorro’s prized coffees are a result of its high altitude location combined with University trained agronomist (and owner) Diego De La Cerda’s great attention to detail.  

He has spurred the farms focus on quality coffee production since the late 1990s with advanced processing techniques including warm water fermentation Instead of using cold water, they have applied hot water to speed up the fermentation process. In this shorter period of fermentation, the coffee grain keeps its density. It also helps maintain the grain’s components pure and natural ( sugars, oils, etc.).

Finca El Socorro is a Rainforest Alliance Certified farm and they go to great lengths to ensure that they are producing coffee in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Juan Diego De La Cerda

Alice Soto is the matriarch and farm owner; she loves coffee and wishes to keep the farm a living legacy for the future generations. The problem is that the new generations don ́t want to work the land and have not seen that coffee is a worthwhile investment. So Alice has been fighting to keep the farms growing and producing coffee. She hopes that by growing high quality Specialty Coffee and selling it for high enough prices, she can show her grandkids that coffee farming is worth it and can deliver joy, hope and pay the bills. 

But the farm suffered from a lack of active management for several years as the family could not agree on whether to sell the land and build condos (the land is right between San Jose and Cartago in the Tres Rios region) or to follow Alice and the families history and grow coffee. 

SMS Specialty Coffee project came to offer their management services, the farm needed an extreme makeover. 40 hectares of the farm needed renovation, and farm productivity was the lowest of the farms long and storied history. Two years ago, the goal was to transform a traditional non Speciality coffee farm into a top-of-the-line productive specialty coffee farm. New environmental and social principles were implemented in order to continue protecting the clear flowing rivers, an abundance of trees, and native wildlife that thrived on the farm. The farm uses zero insecticides and is focused on growing the native bee population to enhance natural pollenization. As part of the renovations the team planted new, modern high quality hybrids that yield exceptional cup quality and protect against many of the modern pests that have decimated so many coffee farms.

Pairing all the farm investment with engaging with a new modern wet mill has made all the difference. Patalillo Wet Mill is a state of the art wet mill highly tuned for Costa Rica’s unique honey process. It allows the hard work of Alice and the farm management tea to shine in this fine example of a perfect Honey processed Tres Rios Costa Rica coffee.

Alice Soto

Mapendo, swahili for “love,” is farmed in 16 separate lots by 4,200 farmers, nearly 40% of which are women. Mapendo farmers produce fully washed coffee that has been certified FTO since 2009. There are 3 washing stations, including one large and two mini washing stations. A fourth station is under construction along with a modern lab for cupping and quality control. This micro-lot is selected from the best day lots of only the Women producers of the Cooperative from those women run farms in the Kahele region and processed at the Buchiro, Chebumba washing station.


Meet Linda Mugaruka (aka: the Queen of Beans). Linda is the Chief Quality Officer and an Owner of Mighty Peace Coffee, as well as the first female Q Grader in the Congo. A loving mother and powerful community organizer, Linda’s dedication to coffee stems not only from a love of beans, but from a true desire to see real change and real peace in her country.

Fikiri Charlotte's life has been positively impacted by growing coffee; it's allowed her to buy a goat for breeding, build a house, and buy another field where she's planted coffee trees. With the manure produced by the goat, she's able to strengthen the ecosystem of her farm through the fertilization of the fields.

Mapendo Women

Justin Volden

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~Beautiful Coffees:: A beautiful taste experience that is designed to be enjoyed, cup after cup, smile after smile. Every coffee is designed to be wonderfully sweet, perfectly balanced and easy to love. ~Radical Equity:: When you buy a box of Torque coffee the coffee producer (farmer or cooperative) was pre-paid 20% of the price you paid. Proportional Pricing is the Producers Share. Simple, radical, equitable. ~Easy To Love:: Relax knowing that every coffee is delivered in recycled, reusable &amp; compostable packaging, &amp; will be sweet &amp; balanced, simple to brew, &amp; a joy to drink. We are proud to be a woman owned and 100% women roasted coffee company.

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Andy Newbom

Join our journey to bring beautiful coffees together with radical equity. You're going to love our coffees. They're sweet, balanced & a joy to drink. Coffee Farmers love our coffees. They get paid 20% of the retail price of every coffee. The transparent ratio means both you & the farmers know exactly how much of the value they receive. Beautiful & Radical.

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