2025 marks 14 years of our coffee partnership with Luis ‘Wicho’ Valdés and Santa Isabel Estate in Guatemala’s Alta Verapaz department.
Wicho is a fifth-generation producer who runs Santa Isabel with great care and a precise attention to detail, carefully balancing tradition with innovation.
In recent years, Wicho has been working hard to make his agricultural processes more sustainable. Through the application of natural micro-organisms to his coffee trees, he has managed to cut out all use of pesticides and most of his fungicide use. As he puts it, “Instead of investing more in medicine, we want to invest more in nutrition.” This approach has led to healthier, more resilient trees that produce deliciously distinct and wonderfully complex coffees.
