Angélica Rojas Porvenir FW

Angélica María Ospina Rojas produces coffee at Finca El Porvenir at 1,800 meters above sea level. She named her farm, Porvenir, which is Spanish for the future, out of a hope for a better future. Located in Aipecito, in Huila, the high altitudes of her farm provide the ideal conditions for cultivating sweet, dense high-quality cherry.

Angélica is a part of Manos al Grano, a non-profit organization founded in 2021 to support coffee pickers. Manos al Grano provides training for coffee pickers and legalizes their work by paying them legally through a bank. Laborers also receive benefits like health insurance and a pension.

Trained pickers with Manos al Grano selectively handpick ripe, red cherry and deliver it to Angélica’s on-farm wet mill. Cherry is left to ferment lightly for 18 hours and is then pulped and placed in tanks to ferment for 24 hours. Following fermentation, parchment is washed in clean water and laid on patios to dry. Parchment dries on patios for 1 day before being finished at low temperature in a mechanical dryer for 35 hours.

Azahar Colombia works directly with producers to source excellent, traceable coffee from Colombia’s best producing regions. They pride themselves on transparent relationships that improve incomes and quality.

In addition to their exporting arm, Azahar also operates a roastery in Quindío and several cafés in Bogotá that serve superb locally-produced coffees to Colombian consumers.