1 - Bella Elizabeth - Guatemala 2024 (Experimental)

The farm was acquired by Don Florencio Modesto Argueta Villatoro on March 23, 1954, from the municipality of San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango, his first plantations were of varieties such as typica, bourbon and Maragogipe, they were planted with distances of 2 meters between bushes and 2 meters between street, when Don Modesto died in 1978, the second generation of the family took charge of managing the Argueta farm, Don Álvaro Rene, Erwin Modesto and Magnolia Argueta Figueroa; When the farm was divided in 2000, Erwin Modesto Argueta Figueroa decided to incorporate new varieties of sowing coffee, caturra, catuai and pache verde; When Erwin Modesto died in 2004, the farm passed into the hands of his son and third generation coffee grower Erwin Humberto Argueta Herrera, who gave it the name Bella Elizabeth in honor of his daughter Ana Elízabeth.
In 2015, after many setbacks and given the difficulty that coffee rust presented, there was a need to look for new opportunities to sell coffee with quality issues, a new wave of coffee reached us and we decided to participate in the competition. of regional coffees promoted by Anacafé, obtaining 4th. Place.
Taking into account our good participation in the Anacafé regional competition, we decided to participate in 2016 in the cup of excellence auction, in which we reached 6th. Positioning ourselves among the best coffees in Guatemala, the farm still preserves traditional varieties such as bourbon, typica and caturra.
Again in 2017 we participated in the Cup of Excellence, obtaining 26th place.
This whole new wave of coffee has led us to implement batches of new coffee varieties that are in development such as villa Sarchi, gesha, pacamara.
For 2021 we have participated again in the Highland Huehue regional coffee competition, obtaining 2nd place. Place.
We also participated in the first edition of the One of a Kind Guatemala competition, occupying Position 18.
The pandemic brought many challenges to the operation of the farm and migration has affected us greatly.
As part of the strategies to face current challenges, we have started planting new coffee varieties with the challenge of maintaining quality and adapting new planting distances to semi-technize the work.
We are also part of the National Coffee Association (Anacafe) SUSTAINABLE PROFITABILITY program that seeks to ensure that coffee farms can withstand moments of crisis by seeing the farm as a coffee company.