Gloria Esperanza Mejia is the owner of a small farm called Las Palmas, in the Copan region of Honduras. This special nanolot has been processed and fermented using a controlled anaerobic natural technique for more than 90 hours, leading to a spectacular cup! This method is very rare in Honduras, and Gloria wanted to name this special lot after a very rare autochthonous bird – El Colibrì Esmeralda. Gloria, her husband and her daughter all live on the farm and do most of the farm work themselves. Despite having no agronomy training or experience in producing coffee, Gloria was forced to take over management of the farm in 2011, after her husband severely injured his back and was no longer able to work. Shortly after she took over management, the farm was decimated by coffee leaf rust. Due to the disease, for two years in a row Gloria wasn’t able to produce one exportable bag from her harvest, and was very close to giving up on coffee. In the 2016/17 Harvest Gloria decided to participate in an Agronomy Project, which meant technical team visited Las Palmas on a weekly basis to coordinate picking at the farm. Now Gloria is producing a variety of lots using different processes, including red and yellow honey lots. Nowadays, Gloria also teaches farmers in the area about organic farming; on her farm, she has provided space that the growers use together to create organic fertiliser.