Brazil FAF Bob-O-Link – Pirapitinga – Yellow Catuai Natural

Burman Coffee Traders

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Origin

Brazil

Process

Natural

Roast Suitability

Description

This coffee comes to us through FAF Coffees, the specialty exporter founded by the Croce family in the Mogiana region of Brazil and one of our first and most cherished Brazilian relationships. During their years spent struggling to revive the soils of their own family farm in Mogiana, the Croces connected with like-minded growers who were also fighting to make farming viable for the next generation, with a strong focus on their immediate ecosystems (the watersheds and canopies that made the land worth living on) and on quality as a means toward economic independence and self-esteem. Over the years their network of farmers grew. Today FAF exports coffee on behalf of roughly 150 small and sustainable farms throughout the Mogiana region, and increasingly from other pockets of entrepreneurial small growers dedicated to that same combination of cup quality, environmental health, and community strength, proudly referred to within the FAF network as “total quality.” The Bob-O-Link project: Named after the transcontinental migratory bird, the Bob-O-Link project brings together neighborhoods of family farms working together and sharing those same values of Total Quality. From that volume of coffee, this special lot was plucked, traceable to farms in the community of Pirapitinga . These producers began focusing on the specialty market alongside FAF, implementing innovative farm management practices to bring out the best of their land. Rather than treating coffee as a homogenous commodity, the focus is on smaller lots, separation of varieties and plots, selective picking, and careful drying, all with social and environmental responsibility: a healthy balance of shade, rich soil, and respect for animal habitats, springs, and clean waterways. Pirapitinga sits in the municipality of Divinolândia, in São Paulo state, within the Mogiana region, which is split between São Paulo and Minas Gerais and considered the most renowned of Brazil’s three major growing regions. It’s an area of