This coffee comes to us from the "Harmony” micro mill, located in the prolific Santa Maria municipality, in Costa Rica’s Dota canton, just next to Tarrazú. This is a one-family mill, servicing their coffee trees over 20 years old. Costa Rica's Micro Mills For a long time, Costa Rica has been well-known for its exemplary cooperatives, and it still is. Coops here are large, stable, supportive enterprises and part of a thriving environmentally-friendly agricultural sector that Costa Rica's federal government seriously supports. Despite the benefits of cooperative farming, a “micro-mill revolution” began in Costa Rica in the early 2000s, as small-scale centralized processing sites began emerging on family estates. This local entrepreneurship and access to select farms created a brand new market for Costa Rica. Individual farms became new brands, competition increased, higher prices ensued, and a range of cup profiles that Central America hadn’t seen before suddenly renewed the roasting world’s appreciation for Costa Rica’s potential. Harmony Micro-Mill Harmony was formulated by Guillermo Fallas Mata, who wanted the family farm to process their own coffee and to have a higher value business to leave to his children. The name “Harmony” is an aspirational name for the family’s micro-mill, symbolizing their dedication to collaboration, happiness, and achieving shared goals day to day. Exclusive Coffees Exclusive Coffees, the exporter of Harmony’s coffee, focuses solely on quality assurance, marketing, and logistics for so-called “micro-mills”, and has deep relationships throughout Tarrazú as well as the West and Central Valleys, and Chirripó. Exclusive has cornered the market on this style of production in Costa Rica and manages a staggering volume of microlot coffees in a given harvest, cupping each and every outturn from their more than 50 micromill partners, for whom they provide quality feedback, processing input and collaboration, promotion to buyers, and all export logistics.
