The town, which has a strong catholic tradition, is home to Colombia’s only canonized saint, MADRE LAURA, who is honoured in the name of this coffee. MADRE LAURA is a community coffee that is carefully blended by maintaining a consistent profile. It is made up of coffee beans from 120+ farmers; each lot is cupped and analyzed to meet that perfectly balanced profile that best represents the town of Jerico.
Jericó, a scenic “heritage village” three hours southwest of Medellin, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province, is the base for Campesino Coffee’s warehouse. A Colombian specialty company, Campesino provides growers with access to the specialty market through the support channels that sustain them at the farm-level and hands-on direction: feedback, analysis, micro-loans for infrastructure, even a coffee school. The school, run from the warehouse, serves as a site of coffee education aimed at helping farmers to increase their quality scores, as well as encouraging youth to return to their coffee roots and family coffee traditions. Campesino also operates a main office and lab in Medellin.