Movimiento BIO

Description

Discover our signature Central American blend! A blend of several cooperatives, which will follow one another throughout the year within Movimiento. What do they have in common? 100% Arabica beans from sustainably-managed coffee fields, for a profile with lovely acidity. 

Our Movimiento blend, an ode to movement

Movimiento, movement, motion. This blend of coffees from Central American farms reflects its region: it's on the move, between two states. Central America lies between 2 oceans (Pacific and Atlantic) and 2 sub-continents (South and North America).

We thought of it as a blend whose composition changes with the seasons, to offer several facets of Central American coffees. Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala... The blend will change throughout the year, but will always be consistent on the palate, of course!

Current blend:

• 40% Arabica from Honduras (Marcala, La Paz) harvested by women from the Alegria project run by the COMSA cooperative
• 60% Arabica from El Salvador (Ahuachapan, Apaneca Ilamatepec) harvested by the Phoenix project and imported by cargo ship

Projet Alegria

The first coffee featured in our Movimiento blend comes from the COMSA cooperative, via the Alégria project: the latter is made up exclusively of women coffee growers, to give them greater prominence (they represent only 1/4 of the cooperative's producers).

In addition to this commitment to women's autonomy, the Alégria project is committed to a coffee culture of sustainable development, in particular to mitigating the environmental impact on the Montecillos mountain range. Women growers also benefit from ongoing training in regenerative and organic agriculture.

On average, each hectare includes between 76 and 112 forest and fruit trees per farm, in contrast to intensive monoculture. Nearly twenty species are grown alongside the coffee trees: liquidambar, pine, guaniguil, lemon, guava, cedar, laurel, tatascán...

About Honduran coffee

Honduras has become a major player in the world of coffee, ranking as the top coffee producer in Central America since 2011. Its production accounts for around 3% of the world total. Honduran coffees offer a diversity of tastes, ranging from sweet and low-acid with gourmet notes to very acidic with floral aromas.

The department of La Paz, created on May 28, 1869, is located in the southwest of Honduras, on the border with El Salvador, at an altitude of between 1,000 and 1,600 meters. It was formerly part of Comayagua department, the cradle of Honduran coffee production. The local economy is based mainly on agriculture, livestock and trade, with important crops of coffee, corn, henequen, sugarcane and fruit.

Marcala, the municipality from which our Movimiento originates, established the first “protected designation of origin” for coffee, due to its unique agro-ecological and cultural characteristics.

Project Phoenix

60% of our blend comes from El Salvador, via a cooperative of 11 producers from the same family, led by Fernando Lima. Their ambition is to ensure the long-term future of coffee growing and to pass on their know-how, standing together to meet their commitments despite the instability of production on each farm.

Like much of the coffee from this region, cultivation takes place under shade. This practice not only helps preserve the natural ecosystem but also provides optimal growing conditions for coffee plants.

The green beans are then shipped to Europe by cargo sailboat, as part of our sail-shipped coffee project. This initiative reduces the damage caused to the oceans and the planet by traditional container ships, while encouraging the maritime freight of tomorrow.

About coffee from the Apaneca Ilamatepec region

It is likely that the first coffee tree in El Salvador was planted here in the mid-19th century. Today, it is the country’s largest coffee-growing region, with altitudes reaching up to 2,400 meters, and is renowned for the quality of its coffee.

This volcanic range, known as the Apaneca mountain range, includes many craters (Ataco, Apaneca, Juayua...) as well as one of El Salvador’s most active volcanoes: Ilamatepec, also known as Santa Ana.