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Semilla has been working with Disnel for the past 3 harvests, but he first began farming his plot in 2012. Having worked with his father since he was a child, he boasts more than 20 years of farming experience despite his young 30 years of age. This is a common story for many of the young smallholders Semilla works with. They have a lifetime of stories of volatility and struggle, especially since the early 2000s when hurricanes decimated the country’s production and, simultaneously, the coffee market began to free-fall as costs skyrocketed.
Semilla's work in Honduras is almost exclusively in a series of hamlets stretched along the peaks of the Montecillos mountain range that crosses La Paz and Comayagua departments. In these areas, the smallholder growers they buy from have been involved in coffee growing as a principal income source for years, if not generations. Many growers have explained that the prices they've received in the conventional model are simply not high enough to generate profits. This is a common refrain in Honduras today: coffee farming can at best pay pickers and input costs, but often fails to do even that.
That is why we are happy to work with Semilla: they pay more than double what the “market” would have paid these farmers. (see our transparency report for more)
Over the last 15 years, the Canadian government has impacted the trajectory of Honduran democracy to create favourable conditions for Canadian corporations within the country, often to the detriment of the Honduran people. Buying coffee consciouslyis a small but powerful way to push back against those imperialist efforts.
BREW CHART & IMPRESSIONS
OUR IMPRESSIONS
Honduras is more know for the washed coffees, and we were pleasantly surprised by how much we liked this naturally processed one from Disnel.
There is a boozy undertone with this coffee while also giving a super sweet cup. This almost reminded us of dark rhum with simple syrup. The coffee is fruity and a little citric, but what caught our attention was the banana notes. We also had some nuttiness, like pistachio and walnut.
HOW PROCESSING IMPACTS FLAVOUR
The cherries were put into sealed bags to ferment for 60 hours right after picking. Then they were brought down to Disnel’s mother’s home where the seeds were placed on raised beds to be dried in full sun for 25 days. Overnight, the beds are covered with plastic to reduce the possibility of moisture affecting the seeds.
BREW GUIDE
Think of these as starting points - adjust as you go. Remember: your taste buds always win!
ESPRESSO
Dose: 18 g Ratio: 2.3 : 1
⏱ : 30-34 sec
ESPRESSO WITH MILK
Dose: 18 g Ratio: 2 : 1
⏱ : 32-36 sec
AMERICANO
Dose: 18 g Ratio: 2.3 : 1
⏱ : 30-34 sec
V60/ ORIGAMI
Dose: 23 g Ratio: 16.5 : 1
⏱ : 3:30-4:00 min
CHEMEX/ BATCH BREW Dose: 40-60 g Ratio: 16.5 : 1
⏱ : 5:00-5:30 min
FRENCH PRESS Dose: 18-25 g Ratio: 15.5 : 1
⏱ : 3:45 min steep time
TRANSPARENCY
Farmer: Disnel Ramirez Import partner:Semilla Price we paid for the coffee to Semilla: 19.50CAD/kg FOB Price: 10.50CAD/kg The higher than usual difference between the FOB and what we paid can be explained by the fact that this is a coffee that landed in October 2024 and that we could not release earlier. We moved our whole roastery operations, leaving a bunch of coffee in limbo since we had little storage capacity. This also means we accrued a lot of financing coast for this coffee.
Also worth noting that this coffee doesn't reflect the realities of coffee prices the industry experienced these past 12 months since this was a forward contract we signed in late 2023.
Farmgate price: 8000 Lempira/quintal green coffee.
(Local farmgate price (2024): 3500 Lempira/quintal green coffee)
Semilla paid more than double the market price in Honduras for this coffee, showing their commitment to challenging the coffee status quo.
