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Ericka Mora
Ericka, Ruben and her three daughters were the first to believe in our organization. Ever since, we have been working closely with her entire family.
Her journey
We met Ericka in 2016.
Ericka, Ruben and her three daughters were the first to believe in our organization. Ever since, we have been working closely with her entire family.
Attention to detail, perseverance and love are a few words that describe Ericka Mora. She is the leader of E&F, which is an artisanal coffee farm producing deliciously high quality coffee located 1,600 meters above sea level in San Marcos, Costa Rica. However, things weren't always this way for Ericka.
Ericka had suffered from bone cancer that led her to amputate her right leg in 2015. The income she was able to receive coffee at the time wasn’t sufficient to cover neither her personal nor business expenses, and she and her family had to seek ways to improve their income sources.
In 2016, Ericka and Ruben met Bean Voyage.
After partnering with Bean Voyage, Ericka and family started processing their own coffee, and selling it to a global market. She went from producing pre-commercial coffee cherries to roast-ready coffee beans by participating in skills-based training with Bean Voyage earning up to 3x more than what she earned from the commercial market. This means that she is able to capitalize on her coffee while getting proper rehabilitation and care for herself and her family.
Ericka lives with her husband, Ruben, who does the farming, and three daughters, all of whom play crucial roles from helping process the coffee to keeping the books. Together, they hope to support Ericka run one of the finest artisanal coffee farms in Costa Rica.
Between 2020 and 2022, we partnered with five coffee producers in Costa Rica and the artist collective Needle and Frame to create a participatory documentary series. Ericka was one of the five producers who wrote and filmed her own story.
About Ericka’s Coffee
NAME OF THE MILL
Café EyF
REGION / COUNTRY
San Marcos, Tarrazú, Costa Rica
ALTITUDE
~1,600 m above sea level
COFFEE VARIETY
Caturra, Catuai
PROCESS
Honey
NOTABLE FLAVOR NOTE
Sugarcane, caramel, grapefruit, green tea