COLOMBIA - Jaime Figueroa - Washed

Jaime Figueroa was born in the municipality of Garzón into a family of five siblings who, with the unconditional support of his mother who was a dressmaker, managed to study and progress.
Jaime spent all his summer holidays in the countryside with his grandmother Encarnación who lived on a small farm with a few coffee trees and cows. During the summer months and school holidays, they shared an unforgettable country life, and she passed on to Jaime what is now his great passion: coffee growing.

A few years later, Jaime Figueroa graduated with a degree in agricultural engineering and began to dedicate himself entirely to coffee growing.
Jaime joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers as a coffee grower in the coffee growing region of Huila and later joined the Cooperative sector in Coocentral until 2006.
In 1997, Jaime became a coffee producer until today, his first farm was a family farm.
Today he is the owner of his own 20-hectare Villa Daniela farm and of Finca La Fontana, which he co-owns with his brother.
Finca Villa Daniela is located in the coffee-growing district of Garzón in the Huila region.
It has an extension of 20 hectares of which 13 hectares are cultivated with coffee of the Tabi and Castillo varietals.
Finca Fontana is also located in Garzón at 1600 meters above sea level, it has an extension of 8 hectares cultivated with the varietals Caturra, Catimore and Geisha.
Jaime, a proud Colombian coffee producer, together with his wife Ruth and daughter Angela Maria, form a beautiful family. Jaime’s aim is to continue with one of the greatest traditions of the area and to maintain an efficient and productive coffee culture giving the best coffees of the region.