FARM BOA VISTA - ESTATE COFFEE
The Boa Vista Farm, located in Cassia/MG, was acquired by the Correa Family in 1998 and is very careful in selecting coffee varieties that enable the production of coffees which have been recognized and valued for its unique characteristics through several awards. From the hands of the family, several lots have has produced, winning regional and national coffee quality contests, as well as being Cup of Excellence finalists.
These results come from the efforts seeking a constant improvement, always looking at social and environmental responsibility, in order to improve the quality of the beans produced. The farm participates in Certifica Minas program; is filiated to AMSC, as well as IWCA Brasil; certified with Fair Trade and UTZ . Such programs encouradge the production of better quality coffees without harm to the nature. Currently, 100% of the electrical energy consumed in the farm is produced in a clean and sustainable way, through a fotovoltaic power station (solar energy).
Besides the passion for coffee, the Correa Family also passes along to new generations the tradition of calling the loved ones by nick names. From the nicknames of “Zecão”´s children – “Malu”, “Carol” and “Badu”, came the brand “Macadu Specialty Coffee”, another accomplishment of the Correa Family in order to offer the consumers an elegant coffee with a unique flavor, harvested from the awarded plantations.
Coffee is a passion at Fazenda Terra Preta, a traditional producer of high quality beans. Fernanda Maciel, owner and manager, together with her son Felipe, forth generation of coffee growers, thinks that coffee tell us a little bit of the story and its roots.
We have been coffee producers since 2010 in Ribeirão Corrente/SP, Sítio Três Reis. With an altitude of 980meters, in ALTA MOGIANA region, an unique terroir (climate, altitude and soil) with unparelleled value, allowing us to always work with a favorable expectation as for the results of the crop which gives us the title of DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN.
It was in the context of world caos that became known in the small city of Ibiraci, countryside of Minas Gerais, the pioneer of Faleiros family. In 1930, Joaquim Alves Falleiros Junior, owner of Fazenda São Domingos, realized that the coffees produced in this municipality were not as food as the ones produced in Franca region. He persued, then, help from the Acricultural office in Belo Horizonte to study the determining causes of this problem. From this study, began, in this farm, the production of fine coffees, with systematic fertilization, better care for the trees and rational drying proccess of the coffees harvested. It was a time when Fazenda São Domingos housed around 100 people who worked in their crops and thus guaranteed a decent living of their families.
The history of coffee productin at Fazenda Santa Rita do Morro Grande began in the last century, with Lia’s ancestors, her greatuncles Liça and Sinhá, in the early 1900. At the time, the farm stood out in coffee and milk production. That is how it was until 1960, when her grandfather, Laercio Andrade, came to work with his uncles and erradicated all coffee trees, for it was a time of crisis to coffee. So, they focused on branches of milk, beef cattle, pole horse breeding and sugar cane. 
Guilherme Nassif Martins Ferreira is currently an example of the new generation of producers in the Alta Mogiana Region that are initiating in coffee business and trying to innovate and improve the existing production processes, focusing in a sustainable growth in the long run. “My grandfather was a dairy producer in Franca/SP. He passed away in 1985, leaving his property to my father. But my father, an agricultural engineer, wasn´t too keen on producing milk and decided to grow coffee, expanding the area little by little.” tells Guilherme, with the notoriety of who knows in depth every crop that he supervises.
Fazenda Pouso Alto began its activities in 1988, municipality of Cristais Paulista/SP. Today, the passion for coffee is already in the second generation. The first seed was planted by its owner, Reginaldo Abrão, that in 1975 began growing coffee in a different property. From 2012 on, Fazenda Pouso Alto can count on the professionalism of Reginaldo’s son, Miguel Abrão, who is an agronomist. With expertise in the field, Miguel broght even more knowledge and dedication to the work started by his father, always in charge of the specialty coffee plantations.
São Felipe Farm´s coffee is known by its distinct sweetness and fostering the empowerment of women in the field, was conceived in 2007 by Vanessa Moreno, forth generation of coffee farmers, although it had been produced for several years by the family, who until then was not aware of their coffee’s quality potential and unique terroir.
The Fernandes Malta Family has been involved in coffee production for over 50 years, uniting the traditionalism of the producing region with a futuristic view. But the story behind Sitio Capoeira´s initiation in specialty coffees has a unique flavor due to a blend of efforts by two sisters, Bruna and Barbara, the first ahead of Olinto coffeeshop in Franca/SP; and the second taking part in managing Sitio Capoeira in Jeriquara/SP, along with her parents, Mr. José Roberto and Mrs. Sueli Fernandes Malta.
Limeira Farm is located in the municipality of Altinópolis/SP, in Alta Mogiana Region. We are third generation of farmers: our family own the farm since the time of my grandfather. As we grew with him, he would take us everyday to the farm to eat bread with melted butter in a wood burning stove owned by Mr. Geraldo, the farm manager at the time, together with the best coffee. I would play in the coffee patio, learning with my grandfather the ways to an economic sustainable coffee production, a thought I carry with me up until now.
