About the Product

Karin de la Rosa - Gesha, Natural

The farm is nestled in the heart of the 140-hectare Mount Totumas Cloud Forest nature reserve, at an elevation of 1,900 metres. Here, exceptional coffee varieties are carefully cultivated: Typica, Catuai, Caturra, Pacamara and the iconic Gesha. Since its foundation in 2008 by brothers Michael and Jeff Dietrich, Mount Totumas has transformed former pastures into a thriving ecosystem. Thirty hectares have been reforested, breathing new life into the forest. Today, each coffee tree thrives in harmony with nature, visited by pollinators and nourished by nitrogen-fixing trees. The canopy is fertilised by the surrounding wildlife.

Karin De La Rosa has had a unique journey. Born in Parañaque in the Philippines and raised in Seattle, she initially worked as a chef in a Japanese restaurant in New York before moving to Panama. In 2008, her family bought a former livestock farm and turned it into a coffee plantation by reforesting the land. Karin became fully involved in production and processing during the first harvest in 2018.