Pastor Ordonez

Pastor is a third-generation coffee producer from San Agustin, Columbia, tracing his lineage back to some of the earliest days of coffee production in the area.

Now 50 years old, he’s spent his entire life since the age of 18 growing coffee and has come to establish himself as a respected grower.

He has played an instrumental role in the development of specialty coffee in his area. He was an original member of the now-famous Los Naranjos Association, a group of small producers who bound together to find better market access for their coffee as early as the year 2000.

Working together, they were able to create a collective group that now numbers up to 90 small producers who have been able to fight for a stable fixed price for their coffees, thereby giving them more stability. Despite this step forward, which helped him to improve his farm and to create a more organized approach to his practices, he only achieved the sale of his coffee as a micro lot in 2018, having sold all his coffee before this as part of a blended lot.

As part of his evolution as a coffee producer, he hopes to have his name known on the international level as a coffee producer of great quality and to see the development of direct and stable relationships with the importers and roasters who buy his coffee, rather than selling all his coffee in a blend to an exporter.

Variety: Pink Bourbon
Farm: El placer
Farm size: 4 hectares
Location: Las Chinas, San Agustin,
Huila, Columbia
Altitude: 1,800 masl
Harvested January 2025, shipped May 2025
Process: Washed
Processing details: Cherries are picked and left for 8 hours in sealed bags before being placed in the hopper and left for another 12 hours
to ferment. The cherries are then released through the de-pulper and left to dry ferment for 36 hours. The coffee is then washed 3-5 times and moved directly to raised drying beds. The coffee dries for between 18 days to one month, depending on the sun exposure.