Honduras, Jesus Galeas

Honduras, Jesus Galeas

Farm: La Falda

Region: Selguapa, Comayagua, Honduras

Processing: Washed 

Varietals: Typica

Flavour Notes: Cherry, Mandarin, Black Tea, Nutty

Jesus has played an integral part in motivating his fellow community members to focus on specialty microlot production, largely due to his work with the Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE).

For seven years, he worked with the organization to assist coffee growers nationwide in understanding the issues they faced, from conducting soil analyses to providing instruction in harvesting and processing coffee.

As he explained, in this work, he sought “to motivate all the producers he could to begin working with specialty coffee and to invest in proper farm practices.” This, of course, came to benefit his community of Selguapa in 2018. Through his work at IHCAFE, Jesus came into contact with another former IHCAFE employee, Rony Gamez. Rony had started his business, Cafe Raga, which seeks to give specialty-specific technical assistance and training to producers, and Jesus brought him samples from Selguapa to assess. From the two producers who were interested in selling as specialty, the Los Ramirez group has now blossomed to 30 producers in a matter of a year.

While Jesus grows in Selguapa on his farm La Falda, his other farm, La Valeria, is located in Intibuca, in the Montecillos mountain range. This was actually his first inheritance from his father, which he began from a single manzana in 2010 at the age of 17. Since then, he’s taken many loans and put much hard labour into making this little plot grow to its present size of 5 hectares. Along the way, he planted Pacamara, Catuai, Paraneima, Bourbon, and IH-90.