"The Santa Catarina site is the result of a family's passion for coffee. The story of the
production begins in the 1980s when Sebastião Alexandre's grandfather passed away
and left the land as an inheritance for his children. Shortly thereafter, it was they who
started the coffee plantation in 1983. At that time, Sebastião's father, Mr. Benedito
Faustino da Silva, along with his wife, Rosa Martins da Silva, made the first planting aided
by his eldest son. . There began the story of coffee on the farm.
The early years were the hardest. The coffees did not reach good quality of drink and to
get worse, soon after, a heavy frost hit the region and destroyed most of the plants.
Discouraged by where the first coffees had been planted, they decided it was time to
look ahead and they chose a higher location for the new planting. From then on, the
passion for coffee was passed on to the family.
Grateful for the partnership with CarmoCoffees, they credit the good results recently
obtained with the guidance and constant charging of the team located in the Pedra
Branca wetmill.
Now they are more attentive to crop care, doing soil analysis, studying how to prune,
and also working hard on postharvest processes, with hanging yards and new ways to
process coffee.
Optimistic, they expect results and recognition this year to be constant over the next few
years and say they will not measure efforts to make it happen.
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Santa Catarina is located in the Pedralva region, this is a family owned farm focusing on growing Yellow Bourbon, Red Catuaí and Yellow Icatu varieties - Championing in Natural Process. We came across Sebastião's farm via our good friends at Carmo Coffees and Pedra Branca Wetmill. Through their guidance, hard work and attention to detail Sebastião is more attentive to crop care, soil analysis and post harvest processing. This is the first time we have purchased from Sebastião and look forward to a bright future with him."
