Ein Teil der Finca Hamburgo. Foto: © WEBER Packaging GmbH, 2019
My travel report
8. Teil – Three days visiting Mexico
Since our host, coffee farmer Andrés Quintanilla, had to travel to Colombia for three days on business, we were allowed to spend three days in Mexico at the Finca Hamburgo. The Finca is managed by the Edelmann family and also produces for Amarella Trading e.K. Green coffee.
The finca The area is a small village with about 500 hectares. Besides the coffee fields there is a carpenter, a doctor, a restaurant and a hotel. Furthermore, the finca provides houses for the approximately 300 employees. Like Andrés, the family attaches great importance to avoiding pesticides and thus provides a habitat for many insects.
THE FINCA
The eldest son of the family, Bruno Edelmann, guided us around the farm and told us that during the harvest 400 to 500 pickers are employed! He also told us that the coffee is not only exported to Europe, Japan and the USA, but that the family also runs three coffee stores in Mexico. For this purpose Bruno specially trained as a coffeologist and attended a roasting workshop. This way he can roast the coffee himself and does not have to outsource this. Since he roasts daily, we were able to see exactly how a roaster works. Since I myself only roast the shop roasters der Coffee-Tech Engineering Ltd. it was particularly exciting to see such a large roaster.
This roaster can roast 15 kg of green coffee. Photo: © WEBER Packaging GmbH, 2019
Furthermore, the drum is not heated by incandescent spirals, but by flames triggered by gas. Photo: © WEBER Packaging GmbH, 2019
Edelmann family with Maren and me. Photo: © WEBER Packaging GmbH, 2019