14 TALQUEZALAR El Salvador 2023

The Talquezalar farm is characterized for being a cozy environment surrounded by a great diversity of flora and fauna. The farm is located in Cerro Negro, Chalatenango, in the Alotepec mountain range in El Salvador, a region characterized by its beautiful landscapes and impressive mountains with pine forests and forests and known in the industry worldwide for the excellent quality of coffee that comes out of it and that has a cool climate at any time of the year.
Irene's farm is located at 1,350 meters above sea level and consists of 12 hectares of forest and nine hectares of coffee forest from which four varieties are harvested. The two main varieties of specialty coffee at the Talquezalar farm are Paca and Paramara, also Catuaí Amarillo, as well as its most recent addition, Geisha.
To avoid coffee dehydration, the Talquezalar farm has a variety of trees that provide shade, reducing the growth of weeds and regulating sunlight. Among these are the cujes, guachipilín, pines, ceibillo, capuliamate, cutujume, palo negro, jiote, cypresses, calagua, chaperno, zucunan, and higuero. And among the existing flora, there is a diversity of shrubs and other trees such as lemon, orange, avocado, banana, banana, oak, soursop, cinnamon, laurel and various flowers, among others.
Due to the variety of flora existing within the farm, the climate and the favorable environmental factors of the area, there is a variety of coexisting species, which enriches the habitat for the reproduction of small reptiles, raccoons, porcupines, cotuzas, small armadillos, tacuazines, pezotes, rabbits, birds such as quail, torogoz, hummingbirds, toucans at certain times of the year, woodpeckers, checks, sparrows, seasonal penduline birds, hawks, owls, mockingbirds and turrets, among others.Mrs. Vicenta Rodriguez started with small coffee crops in a plot of the farm more than 83 years ago, his son Jose Alfonso continued with the legacy until he inherited the total management of coffee production, the experience and time of Mr. Jose Alfonso allowed him to increase extensions of land expanding its coffee forests, this being the main economic activity for the support of his wife and children, in the 2000s, due to the deteriorating health of Mr. Jose Alfonso, Alfonso son began to support his father. In 2008, when his father passed away, Alfonso son took control of the farm and continued his father's work.
In 2012 the country suffers the economic consequences caused by the rust plague, being the Talquezalar farm affected in its entirety, the passion for coffee cultivation that Alfonso had led him to rethink the future of the farm, renewed 100% of the farm with special coffees, took training with specialists, applied new techniques in the processes, improved and expanded its benefit.
In 2017 Alfonso son, has the vision of taking his coffee to excellence and decides to cultivate the Pacamara variety, starting with a more specialized care of the crop and its production and it is at this moment where the quality of production and processes begins.
In 2020 after Alfonso's death the farm passed into the hands of Irene, Alfonso's wife and his daughters Tamara and Paola who embrace the vision and passion that Alfonso had, and go on to form the fourth generation of coffee producers. This has been a great challenge for Irene, since she was not interested in the industry, nor did she have any knowledge whatsoever; however, she decided to learn about coffee growing, to train herself, to study in order to continue her husband's dream and to take her farm to have one of the best coffees in the country and to continue the legacy for her daughters and future generations.
The work carried out by the workers of the farm, the good practices, the effort that has been made from generation to generation, the dedication in the constant improvements, the perseverance, the innovation in the different processes, the delicate care at the time of processing, the love and passion have taken Talquezalar coffee to exalt its quality. In the Talquezalar farm three processes are used in the coffee processing: washed, honey and natural. The production of the farm is characterized by taking care of the details to ensure an excellent coffee. A great example of this is the use of African coffee drying beds that help to ensure that the final coffee product is of the highest quality.