Unit Fourteen

by Round Hill

Juan Saldarriaga manages 2 farms, La Claudina and El Encanto, near to Bolivar in Antioquia. His house sits at the bottom of the farms’ steep slopes, which span 60 hectares each with a combined coffee-planted area of just 42 hectares. The remaining land is devoted to natural reserve and forest. He took on the farms from his parents in 2012, and employs 45 pickers at the height of the season, from September to January, with 3 permanent staff.