Colombia – Burbujas - Huila Wet Mill Project

This specific lot comes from 30 – 50 smallholder producers throughout Huila and processed at the newest Aguablanca wet mill. Opened in 2024, the Aguablanca mill is state of the art, and the most advanced wet mill facility in Colombia. The mill was built and is managed by our exporting partner, Cóndor. Thanks to the opening of this mill, there has been a direct impact on 600 producing families in the area of the South of Huila.

Huila is quite well-known for its ideal coffee growing environments, not only thanks to the soil and climate, but also due to the hard-working producers within the region. Coffee farming in Huila is overwhelmingly small-scale. Indeed, approximately 80% of producers from the region grow coffee on less than 3 hectares of land. These small farms are tended by individual families with labour only rarely being contracted out, which leads to more thorough and intensive management practices and great pride in the final product – which is, itself, an extension of the family.