Note: We only have two vac packs of this special Ecuador left.

We are starting to work more with small producers in the Cariamanga and Espindola areas of Ecuador, near the border with Peru. The area has fantastic potential, but the prices for coffee have been so low historically that many small producers have simply given up on coffee. For those who continue, producing a rough form of natural dry-process coffee they call "bolla" locally has been an option. Unripe and ripe coffee are picked together, and the market price the bolla fetches barely makes harvesting worth the effort. But working with a local cooperative, Fapecafes and the larger coop ProcafeQ, we now have the opportunity to identify special microlots and buy carefully produced wet-process lots, or to build a blend from lots too small to export (as we do in Colombia and other places). This has opened up new possibilities for us, and this offering is from our first arrivals of this new Ecuador program. Teofilo Jimenez is an elder in the El Guabo community and has been producing coffee for some 35 years. His farm is at 1530 meters. This coffee was vacuum-packed at origin, and undisturbed by us here at Shrub, hence the slight larger vac pack size of 37 Lbs. This very small lot (10 vac pack bricks) is also the entire output from Sr. Jimenez' farm! It's a subtle coffee, but has some amazing qualities.