Hard Grafters Roy & Daleria Make It Work

It wasn’t much; together they owned 1.7 hectares when they first started. That wasn’t enough to provide for their family, so they both also had to work full-time formal jobs and then worked on their land and on the preparation of micro-lots at night and in the weekends; basically whenever they could.

In 2022, a mere few weeks after Dariela had given birth to their second daughter, Roy participated in a three day workshop with Lucía Solís, the renowned expert in yeast and fermentation processes. The acquired technical knowledge was instrumental in further boosting the quality of the lots that the couple is now able to prepare. Their first micro lots were sold to a roaster in the US in 2017 and it took another two years until they found a second roaster, this time in the UK (Notes Coffee in London). By 2022 however, Roy and Dariela had further expanded their partner base, that now also includes the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, and New Zealand.

Do Roy and Dariela have any dreams for the future left? You bet! To always prepare more and better coffees, of course. But we also want to start proposing ‘cascara’ which we prepare from our organic lots, and for which demand in several parts of the world is growing.