Origin Trip - Las Veraneras Coffee Farm | El Salvador

Origins Trip - Las Veraneras Coffee Farm | El Salvador
Filmed in May 2024 on our visit to finca Las Veraneras. We've had the pleasure of sourcing their coffee since 2018. In that time they've won several accolades & have placed high at the prestigious Cup of Excellence competition.
Finca Las Veraneras is in western El Salvador’s Apaneca - Ilamatepec mountain range. Jorge Cruz Rubio has been putting into practice techniques and processes that many sustainable agriculturalists only dream of being able to achieve in their lifetime using progressive, ecologically beneficial growing practices such as biodynamic farming (which takes organic farming a step further by reincorporating waste from agricultural production back into the system in the form of compost instead of using manufactured external inputs, helping to cultivate beneficial microbial life and subsequently healthier plants), the use of biochar, and multi-layered planting practices that offer habitat for local fauna and improves soil retention and health, amongst others, all on a large scale. Finca Las Veraneras is a 20 acre farm unto itself, but Jorge has been integral to sharing and teaching these practices amongst his neighbors in the region, improving the ecology, production volumes, and value of their coffee as part of his organization, BioKrop, that he founded.
Music
"I want you" by Sun Room
"Sammy" by Little Heroine
"Bay Side" by Emily Afton