Brazil Mogiana FAF Bob-O-Link Reserve – Sitio Sassafras – Catuai Natural Processed

Burman Coffee Traders

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Origin

Brazil

Process

Natural

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Description

This lot comes to us through FAF Coffees, some personal buddies of ours. Founded by the Croce family in the Mogiana region and one of our oldest and most cherished Brazilian relationships. The Bob-O-Link project, an FAF initiative launched in 2008, was created to transform Brazilian coffee from a mere commodity into a specialty product. The harvest is carried out manually, and the cherries undergo a 100% natural process: after careful selective picking, they are washed and floated to remove damaged and less-dense beans, then gently dried on raised beds and turned periodically to even out moisture and enhance complexity. Despite the default impression of Brazil as being dominated by large, mechanized farms, still about half of the country’s coffee farmers are small, family-managed operations who process at home and sell to local growers’ organizations to earn their living. Smaller farms tend to be clustered in the more difficult landscapes for coffee efficiency the ones that are steep and forested, difficult to access, or at higher elevations where the climate is more challenging for coffee to thrive. FAF Coffees is a specialty exporter founded by the Croce family. During their years spent struggling to revive the soils of their own family farm in the Mogiana region, the Croces connected with like-minded growers struggling as well 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 as well as quality, as a means to economic independence and self-esteem. Over the years the Croce’s network of farmers grew. FAF now exports coffee on behalf of a large network of small and sustainable farms throughout the Mogiana region and beyond, dedicated to the same combination of cup quality, environmental health, and community strength, exuberantly referred to in the FAF network as “total quality.” The history of Sítio Sassafraz began in 1888, in Sermide, near Bologna in the