Aug 19 2024 - Sept 12 2024
Dolmin Moreno has his own farms and the Moreno family a rich and long history of coffee growing in Honduras. For this particular honey lot he grew the coffee on the storied La Orquidea farm which the Moreno family co-owns with Benjamin Paz. This is the same farm that our Recent Pacas washed lot from Benjamin was grown on.
The villages Cielito, Cedral and Las Flores follow one after another along the mountain range in Santa Barbara. Grown on this hillside is mostly Pacas, a coffee species akin to Bourbon, as well as Yellow Catuaí and Pacamara. Pacas is a natural mutation of Bourbon, similar to Caturra in Brazil and Villa Sarchi in Costa Rica. Similar to other widely cultivated Bourbon mutants, Pacas has a single-gene mutation that causes the plant to grow smaller leading to higher potential yields and the possibility of placing plants closer together to increase total fruit production on a farm. The variety was discovered in 1949 on a farm owned by the Pacas family in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador.
