café don lencho description english
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Café Don Lencho is grown in the highlands of Central Honduras, at an altitude of 4,500 ft. The area is shrouded in a foggy, misty rain for a good part of the year. With the quality of these natural growing conditions, along with being processed by American standards, Café Don Lencho will quickly become a household item! Seven years ago Loren Ebersole moved back into the hills of Central Honduras to a community called El Naranjo. He made this move while he was yet single as part of a Mennonite mission effort to provide a school teacher for several families in that locality. He later married a girl from Costa Rica, and now the Ebersole family have joined the residents of El Naranjo, in making this community their home. El Naranjo is located about a 3 hour drive from the town of Seguatepeque, Honduras, and is accessible only by 4-wheel drive. There is no electricity, the dwellings are very primitive, and the only economy is coffee. When coffee is a decent price as it is now, the local farmers can buy clothes and shoes, and sustain their families from one year to the next. When coffee prices drop (like they always do) these families resort to abandoning their plantations and living on whatever their land can produce by way of corn, beans, bananas, etc. Coffee is what allows them to live a bit more comfortably when the price is high. Most of these coffees are shade grown and are SHG classified (Strictly High Grown) coming from a frigid altitude of 4,500 ft. These coffees are washed and sun dried. Nearly an estate coffee, traceability is very simple as Café Don Lencho for this year will be coming only from 4 growers. This coffee has a soft aroma, delicate acidity yet intense body, delightfully sweet and woodsy notes. You can purchase today for $2.35 per lb. Ships in April 2011. You may reserve your lot now with only $.25 per lb. Add to cart. The local natives have given Loren the nick-name of ‘Lencho’ as an endearing term, for all the kindness he has shown them, and as proof of their trust relationship. ‘Lencho’ has been observing the local economy and has become convinced that if the Naranjo community could directly connect with the outside world of coffee roasters, the necessary things a local family needs, could be provided for and a sustainable living could be made. JavAlliance wishes to help make this dream possible, and two of their representatives have made the trip back there twice within the last year and have now agreed to help ‘Don Lencho’ start with the upcoming crop to locate 50 sacks of coffee from the Naranjo community. These 50 sacks will come from 4 native families who form part of the Mennonite church, and who have agreed to process and prepare their coffee for export to the JavAlliance quality standards. JavAlliance is working with a Capital group to fund the crop for these families and is also working with an organization that is interested in financing the needed equipment to process the coffee to American standards. JavAlliance will keep you updated as these efforts bear fruit and as the community of Naranjo progresses towards sustainable living. You may contact ‘Don Lencho’ direct at [email protected] 011-503-7786-6827 or a [email protected] or call toll free: 1-800-580-3096 Be assured that you will not reach a high pressured salesman. You will either be in contact with the grower himself or a very helpful and informative JavAlliance member!TRANSCRIPT
