Santa’s Yard is the festive edition of our house espresso blend and features coffee from Guatemala and Kenya, blended to highlight notes of toffee, apple and cinnamon.

The Nicaraguan component - San Ramon - sits within the Dipilto mountain range, a Nicaraguan nature reserve located close to the border with Honduras. The farm is run by Donald Efrain Roque, who is the third generation of coffee producers in the Roque Family. Both his grandfather and father were dedicated to coffee, and he is continuing with this beautiful legacy. For his entire life, he has worked with coffee and over this time he has acquired a very special affection and passion for it.

In 2006, Donald Efrain found out about the Cup of Excellence in Nicaragua and he decided to participate in the contest to see how much potential his coffee had. After performing well, he became more motivated than ever to continue improving the quality of his coffee and participated again in COE in 2009 and 2011, where he achieved great results. For him, the biggest change from being a conventional farmer to a specialty coffee farmer was having to train and educate his workers to change their harvesting and processing practices.

Donald has been working with our sourcing partners Caravela for five years now and his point of view on coffee has completely changed since he started producing specialty coffee. Now he is consistently seeking to improve and to become a better farmer. He strongly believes in the potential of specialty coffee in Dipilto, Nueva Segovia and he recommends every single farmer in the region to focus solely on producing a high-quality product.

While we have been purchasing coffee from Donald for four years, in 2024 we committed on purchasing increasing volumes every year up until 2027. This comittment to volumes is one way we can make the coffee industry fairer.

The Burundian component is sourced from the Izuba Community Washing Station, where Muharo Trading Company operates. They collaborate closely with the community, purchasing coffee cherries directly from local farmers. This direct relationship ensures quality control and a fair return to the farmers. We work with their exporters, Raw Material, who operate as a CIC and reinvest all profits into the communities they operate in.

Supporting this community hits one of our key sourcing pillars: Sustainable Initiatives.