Working with this couple is a true blessing. Maurizio is a highly skilled agronomist and is doing phenomenal work on this and this coffee is a book example of it. For a few years, we are getting the four varietals grown at the farm kept separated for us. Drop Coffee is the only one buying the coffee sourced directly from the farm El Sunzita. Separating the different coffees, Mauricio found this hybrid of Bourbon growing at the farm, that he has chosen to call El Pasti. Mary received the Coffee grower of the year award, from the agricultural minister of El Salvador, because of the innovative process that they use at their farm. El Sunzita is a great example of driven producers that are putting in the extra work to achieve higher quality, also how small-scale producers and roasters can work together for higher quality. Mary and Mauricio were given their current piece of land through Mauricio's family, 30 years ago when they got married and started to grow coffee on the plot soon thereafter. Mauricio is an agronomist and Mary is working with admin and business. Step by step they have built an incredibly beautiful farm on their land. Today they have built a nursery to be able to strengthen weaker plants and installed a small pulper to be able to experiment with different processing. Their grown-up kids are getting more and more involved as well. Mauricio as an agronomist and producer is consulting other producers with agronomy too. At El Sunzita he is working as steadily and organic as he can, focusing on the three S’s; Soil, Sun and Shade. By covering the area with the coffee trees with shading trees, sending soil on tests readings and creating their own fertilizers. On the new plants, they have been focusing on building stronger roots of the plants, for three years they've applied biota and are also making fertilizers from the coffee pulp.