This Organic coffee is produced by the Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias San Juan del Rio Coco (UCA SJRC), for whom quality is of utmost importance. To ensure the best drying conditions and avoid taints and defects, farmer members bring their wet parchment to a central drying location, where it is carefully tended by Coop experts.

Spanning five communities in the San Juan del Rio Coco region in Northern Nicaragua, UCA SJRC, helps farmers produce profitable and environmentally responsible coffee.

UCA SJRC is a union of 8 cooperatives in the region that represent more than 370 small producers. The 8 separate cooperatives in the region joined together in 1993 to be able to better help their members better control coffee quality and access better prices. The region and the cooperative are both named after the Rio Coco, a large river that runs through the region. As agrarian communities, the Rio Coco remains a source of an essential element of survival: water.