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Today we are lucky: the flight is not cancelled again – and really short. In contrast to Bogotá, which is 2640 m above sea level and often a little cooler, it is scorching hot in Pitalito. Even at the emergency assembly point there is a palm tree. Emergency meeting point with palmtree in …
We have half a day of free time in Bogotá, so I accompany Xiomy to the “Arte y Pasion Café: Escuela de baristas“1, which means “Café Art and Passion – Barista School”. It was founded to promote the appreciation of good coffee in Colombia itself. For until today, high-quality coffee is mostly exported, while …
After a pleasant night in the local hotel, we climb into the back of a pick-up truck and are driven to Don Omar. His “Finca Flores” is 42 hectares big, around 10 times larger than that of Doña Magdalena. Omar tells us about the rural exodus: in Colombia, too, people prefer to live in the …
It is early in the morning when I leave my hotel in the centre of Bogotá. I am on my way to the airport, where I am to meet the Colombian scientist Xiomara and a group of coffee roasters from Austria to explore the country’s coffee plantations. Alexei from “Café Libertad Collective” will also be …
Williams Flores, 37 years old. Lives in Cusco (Perú) and his family has a coffee shop called Cappuccino Cafe Cusco. He is dedicated to processing and roasting the coffee. 1. What connects you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? I’m in the coffee business because it’s a family tradition that started 26 years …
Natalie, born in Austria, worked for an NGO for years and now imports her own coffee. I met her at a coffee tasting in Santa Marta, Colombia. Read here what she thinks about coffee and fair trade. 1. What is it that links you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? Four years ago …
Lukas is a Cold Brew producer and lives in Klagenfurt (Austria), I met him on a coffee trip through Colombia. 1. What is it that links you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? Coffee has always interested me. As a child, my grandfather had a big coffee tree for many years, which stood …
Andrés Hernández is 25 years old and lives in Bogotá (the capital of Colombia). He works as a quality analyst and gives courses for baristas (the people who then prepare perfect coffees for us in a café). Together with his brother he has a company dedicated to the commercialization of coffee. They are also looking …
Ariane is a singer and songwriter living in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She has the connection to Latin America through her father who was born in Argentina – she herself is European and Latin American. I got to know her when she came to Berlin on a lecture tour through Germany. Over a coffee she told me …
1. Where does your passion for coffee come from? Why do you work with coffee? I got connected to coffee through my family, we all produce coffee, we were born and grew up with coffee and have been growing this bean for generations. I work with coffee because our land and our climate favour coffee …