Colombia Natural French Roast

Coffee was introduced to Colombia by Jesuit missionaries in the early 1700s. Colombia is the second largest supplier of the world’s coffee supply. Three Andean mountain ranges, known as “cordilleras,” run from north to south; the main coffee-producing areas fall within the eastern and central cordilleras where the soil is volcanic and altitudes range from 4,000 to 6,000 feet. Colombia’s 300,000 farms each average less than eight acres and tend to be family owned and operated. The farms produce only wet-processed Arabica coffees, which are hand-picked during two harvesting periods (April through June and October through January).