Farm Name: "Finca Clave de Sol"

Altitude: 1300 mts

Varietals: Icatu, Parainema, Maragogype, Borbon, Tipica and Catuai

Farm size: 3.5 ha

Harvest: Dec-Apr

Production: 11,200 lbs green coffee

Process: Natural processed, sun-dried in raised, covered beds

Location: Barrio el Rincon, Marcala, La Paz, Honduras

Miriam “Betty” Perez is a third-generation coffee farmer, producing coffee for over 20 years. She is a local leader in the Marcala community. She has also become an outspoken advocate of gender equality and fair trade in the coffee industry. “When we were kids, our grandfather always involved all of his grandsons in farm chores at his coffee farm. He didn’t like bringing his granddaughters because he used to say girls had no place on coffee farms. In the end, he wound up contradicting his own beliefs by leaving his daughter, my mother, his farm, and delegating tasks to me. I helped by planting trees, hauling and picking coffee, helping my mother, who was a single mother, earn a living for us in order to buy school materials and clothing. Today, I remain an organic coffee producer. Our vision is to have coffee production be the inheritance of our four children, and to instill in them the same vision and values of cultivating coffee in harmony with nature.”