People seen from behind, facing the mountains of northern Nariño

Northern Nariño · Colombia

Origin

Who we are

Asociación Campesina LEGADOS was founded by a woman farmer and brings together more than 30 coffee-growing families in northern Nariño, Colombia.

They are small-scale growers, with about one hectare of coffee on average. The Association accompanies each coffee from the farm to the buyer, through direct trade and a short supply chain.

A grower of the Association in his coffee field in bloom, with plantain and mountains behind — The farm

The territory

Colombia: Northern Nariño
altitude: 1,700–2,200 m
Harvest: May–September
of coffee per family: ≈ 1 ha

Northern Nariño is mountain country: hillside farms between 1,700 and 2,200 meters, where coffee is grown and picked by hand. In the department, more than 39,000 families grow it in 41 municipalities, on farms of about one hectare. In rural Nariño, poverty is twice as high as in its cities.

Sources: Government of Nariño (coffee-growing families) · DANE, Multidimensional Poverty 2025.

From these mountains, coffee has carried Colombia’s name around the world, cup by cup.

Asociación Campesina LEGADOS works so that this coffee reaches the people who drink it directly, with the name of the farm that grew it.

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Sources: Government of Nariño (coffee-growing families) · DANE, Multidimensional Poverty 2025.

How we farm

Our farms are in agroecological transition.

On the farm

Shade We grow coffee under native and fruit trees.
Streams We plant native trees along their banks.
Compost We turn prunings from the shade trees into compost, together with biofertilizers.
Food crops Plantain, fruit trees and citrus grow alongside the coffee, for the families’ table and as additional income.

The coffee

Varieties Among others, Castillo, Colombia, Caturra, Bourbon Rosado and Geisha.
Harvest From May to September, we pick only ripe cherries, one by one, by hand. See Quality and process