Yorgeny Torres’s plot is part of a 2 hectare family farm, Finca La Indonesia, in Nariño that she maintains with her three siblings: Juan Angel, Gabriel and Frank. Inherited from their father Arbey Torres, the family has been producing coffee for over 50 years. Distinct from the rest of Colombia, which harvests coffee year round, Nariño has an Andean climate that results in a distinct harvest season. Coffee producers there are much smaller, and local biodiversity and soil health is maintained.

Yorgeny and her siblings have embraced what makes Nariño special by focusing on cup quality and environmental protection. They’ve approached this on multiple fronts, cultivating new and old varietals, reducing chemical inputs and introducing organic material to the soils, encouraging bee activity and planting more shade trees.