Finca La Llama
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BOLIVIA
Fincas Los Rodríguez
Dried mango, spice, tropical acidity, syrupy body, light to medium roast
About
Finca La Llama is owned by the Rodríguez family as part of the Fincas Los Rodríguez project and managed by Agricafe, the family’s processing and exporting company. Over the last few years, the family have been making radical changes to the farm. The farm was originally planted with coffee in an unsatisfactory way which led to coffee trees and shade trees competing for the same nutrients, sunlight, and rainfall. Ideally, shade trees and coffee trees work together to create the best environment for both trees as the shade often serves more purpose than sun protection. Shade trees provide an income stream on their own if they produce a crop and can also supply firewood where range-ovens provide most of the energy for heating and cooking in rural homes. The family undertook a large project of shade management with extensive pruning and removal of a good number of coffee trees to allow more light into the remaining coffee plants. The short-term sacrifice in crop quantity has meant a larger and better-quality crop from less coffee trees in the future. After a solid pruning, it can take a couple of years for this kind of intervention to really see results.