Colombia Siren Geisha Washed Dry WDX

Today, San Agustin is famous for its coffee, with about 6,000 coffee producers in the region, but when Angel established his farm in the 1980s, the soil in the Kennedy area was very dry and not suitable for growing coffee. Every summer, heavy rains would wash away soil from the farms and cover the roads.

Still, those who are able to successfully grow coffee, like the Ortega brothers, enjoy benefits that are different from those today.

For example, in the 1980s, no one used chemicals on their coffee in this region because there was no need for fertilizer to make the crop grow optimally.

However, today, with the trend towards single-origin vines and an increase in weather-related diseases (such as La Roya leaf rust), growers must fertilize three to four times a year and carry out disease control treatments at least once a year.

Forty years ago, coffee cultivation culture was still in its infancy, so Angel initially sold a type of coffee called "en verde," which was pulped but not dried.

There were few local businesses that would buy parchment-dried coffee, and the fees to enter the market as such were quite high.

Nonetheless, Ángel (like many of his generation) is nostalgic for the past, when the cost of living was much lower and production costs were lower, making growing coffee and selling Enverde a much more profitable business than it is today.

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