Pastor Ordoñez, Washed Papayo, Colombia

Highlights

“Pastor Ordoñez is a third-generation producer in Las Chinas, San Agustín, Huila, and one of the growers behind Monkaaba's direct-trade programme. Papayo is a rare variety he now grows alongside the Pink Bourbon Have Fun. Coffee has roasted for years: cherries are picked at peak ripeness, sealed in bags for 8 hours, rested 12 hours in the depulper hopper, depulped, then dry-fermented 36 hours before washing and 18-30 days of drying on raised beds above his house. Have Fun. paid Semilla $11.15 USD per pound of exportable green (FOB $5.84/lb); farmgate was $3,700,000 COP per carga of parchment against a $3,000,000 COP national average.”