First week we managed to interview nine households in three days in some of the most remote coffee country in the Central Cordillera!! Hours driving up degraded gravel roads through small communities stopping to ask each person we passed where the next coffee farmer on our list lived. "Perdon doña Ud. sabe donde vive el Señor Juan Jose Baseo Valerio?"
Our journey started in the valley of Jumunuco with its rolling fields of beans and pastor for cattle. As we drove onwards and upwards the fields quickly faded behind us to a pine, guama, banana and robust green caturra coffee plant dominated landscape as we entered Los Montansos, a small community of isolated third generation coffee farmers for our final interviews of the week. Next week, we'll move to the communities of La Pelada and La Lomita in our valley both of which are in transition to complete organic certification a contrast to the full conventional farms of the week before.
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