Finca La Cumbre

Bibiana Mena and her husband Diego López have farmed La Cumbre (The Summit) since 2010. Diego is an agronomist by profession who grew up learning coffee from his aunt and developed his knowledge of coffee production during his time working with the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. La Cumbre is the second farm that they bought, and it was bought in instalments, lot by lot, until they had approximately 50 hectares. The farm is a combination of five sections: Cidral, La Cumbre, Casa Vieja, Montecillo and Loma Verde. Of the 50 hectares, 20 hectares are planted with around 80,000 coffee plants. In 2017, they built a small cable car on a zip line to help move coffee cherry from the steepest and most remote parts of the farm. The cable car also transports breakfast and lunch down to the picking teams at the lower areas of the farm. Bibiana, Diego, and their daughter Isabella have worked hard over the years, and these efforts have been recognised through several coffee competition wins.