Edin and his family are relatively new to coffee, having moved to Santa Bárbara from the city in the last seven years or so. They reside in a part of the mountain called El Cedral where they have two plots under cultivation - the main farm, occupying just one hectare, and an even smaller variety garden.

The main farm begins at 1,400 meters elevation and is primarily planted with pacas and bourbon. In the coming years they plan to renovate the farm, sectioning it into quadrants which will be replanted with new varieties deemed optimal for the farm's soil and microclimate.

Key to this plan is Edin's variety garden, a 1,600 meter elevation plot no larger than our own roastery that is planted with numerous different coffee varieties, including exotics and traditional cultivars - among them catuaí, bourbon, parainema, and pacas alongside red and yellow pacamara, paraíso, SL-28, chiroso, and multiple lineages of gesha. Edin's goal with the variety garden is to identify which plants are the most successful in El Cedral and to generate a source for these varieties that he and other producers in Santa Bárbara can use for new plantings...