Specialty coffee Colombia Javier Jiménez Lasso

Species: Arabica Altitude: 1,680-1,720  masl Process: Washed - anaerobic Screen: 15+ Variety: Castillo, Caturra, and Colombia Production Area: Huila Producer: La Esmeralda Martines Category: Specialty coffee

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Region Colombia

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Javier Jimenez Lasso is originally from the Department of Tolima, Colombia. He is the eldest of a family of 5 siblings, grew up surrounded by coffee plantations, and immersed in the coffee field. He learned from his father everything related to coffee production. In 1997 Javier arrived in the Coffee region of Huila to work as a coffee picker and decided to stay in the district of Garzón and have his coffee farm there. Javier worked approximately 20 years to be able to buy his Farm, thanks to all the years of work and all the effort together with his wife and children he achieved his goal and was able to fulfill his dream: to have his coffee farm and produce quality coffee. In 2018, he purchased the Farm la Esmeralda, located on the Pan de Azúcar trail. Javier decided to buy this Farm because of the conditions it offered: its soil, location, topography, and production he liked it very much and saw the potential he could obtain from it. Currently, the Farm La Esmeralda is cultivating Coffee of the varieties Colombia, Caturra, and Supremo. In La Esmeralda, coffee had always been processed traditionally, until mid-2020 and 2021, when Javier’s eldest son, who is an Agricultural Engineer, proposed to his father to allow him to carry out tests and studies with different methods and techniques of coffee processing, and thus be able to create an ideal processing protocol that would adapt to the conditions for the coffee of the Farm, to be able to give an added value to the final beverage. In addition to coffee growing, Javier has always liked to be a social leader, he is currently the president of the Junta de Acción Comunal of the village, and he manages projects and aids in development and social welfare. Javier is a proud Coffee Producer from Huila, together with his wife Leida Roció, and their seven children, they form a beautiful family. Javier’s objective is to continue with coffee growing, to be able to buy more land, and to make the Farm bigger. He wants to finish educating his children and improve the infrastructure of the coffee mill and the coffee drying process to be more efficient, producing sustainable and environmentally friendly coffee production, producing the best coffees in the region.