La Bendición

We are delighted to have coffee from Bobby Ulloa Rusconi’s farm, La Bendición, back on the counter. Bobby was gifted a small parcel of land by his father Roberto Ulloa (of La Divina Providencia) when he married a few years ago. Over the last years Bobby, with the help of Roberto, has planted small lots of Pacamara alongside the SL28 (Kenya) already on the farm. Like other farms in this part of El Salvador, the trees are trained into parras using the agobio branch technique. Parras translates to vines and is named for how the trees look using the agobio technique. The technique is used on young trees which are leaned over parallel to the ground. The new growth grows straight upwards from the trunk, imagine a tree on its side and you have the idea. Trained this way, a row of trees almost forms a vine like structure. The result maximises the use of space and productivity of the plants – it’s a great technique for a smaller farm.