Guatemala - Victor Calderon - Finca La Pia

About This Coffee

Victor Calderon produces coffee on Finca La Pia just outside of the town of Palencia in the Fraijanes region of Guatemala about an hour outside of Guatemala City. Don Victor practices bio-dynamic farming on his farm, working with the environment on and surrounding his farm to maintain a functioning ecosystem, of which coffee is just a part. As a result Finca la Pia more closely resembles a forest than a coffee farm. In many areas of the farm, lots of coffee are planted as an understory shrub under old-growth and secondary-growth forests. In his bio-dynamic farming approach and quest to maintain a healthy ecosystem on his farm Victor works with the environment to ensure the health of his farm and the sustainability of producing coffee on his land. The coffees coming from La Pia are proof that regenerative agriculture is a benefit to both the environment and the quality of the product coming off the land.