Haiti COOPACVOD Blue Mountain

MEDIUM ROAST
10oz. whole bean coffee
Washed process

Flavor
The poor man's Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee! Low acidity, very sweet, medium body with rich and robust darker chocolate tones.

Info
Haitian Blue is what made Haiti famous for coffee. At one time it was as rare, as tasty and as expensive as Jamaican Blue Mountain but unfortunately those days are long gone. The Haitian economy was toppled a couple times for a plethora of reasons (including corruption and earthquakes). The fields and farms went untended and were abandoned, later the coffee trees were mostly used for firewood to folks living in the area. Very sad start to this coffee but this should be a positive story for these beans represent the resurrection of awesome Haitian Coffee. 

Nestled in the mountains just south of Cap Haitian, this is the oldest running cooperative in all of Haiti. COOPACVOD has over 850 members and workers and produces the only organic certified, arabica blue mountain coffee in all of Haiti.

Francis Dubois was a physics professor in Port Au Prince. He attended school in Miami. In 1980 he moved to Dondon, Haiti, and began to create what one day would become Coopacvod. Francis used the water from the nearby river to irrigate fields, power a water mill to generate energy and wash the coffee to prepare it for consumption. He then filters the water before allowing it to return to the river, in order to not add the coffee’s acidity to the water source. Francis is now the elected president of Coopacvod, and he uses his resources and his education to help create a sustainable business for themselves. Francis is in charge of our entire Own-a-Tree program and he also owns the largest Arabica Blue Mountain farm in Haiti. It is around 3 hectares total.