The Younger Brothers Trading Co. – Arhuaco Indigenous Wild-Grown Coffee Medium Roast Whole Bean 12 oz

- **RICH NUTTY FLAVOR PROFILE** ? Cocoa, almonds, and sugarcane with bright citrus notes create a well-rounded medium roast. A Colombian coffee with nutty sweetness and a clean finish ? excellent for drip, pour-over, French press, and cold brew. - **WILD-GROWN SINGLE ORIGIN ARABICA** ? 100% Arabica Caturra varietal grown above 1,200 meters in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of Colombia. Wild-grown with no pesticides, chemicals, or non-indigenous cultivation methods. - **DIRECTLY SOURCED FROM ARHUACO INDIGENOUS FARMERS** ? Harvested by Arhuaco indigenous families in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Every purchase directly benefits the indigenous Arhuaco families who produced this coffee ? verified by our Directly Sourced Authentic Product seal. - **BLESSED BY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL LEADERS** ? This coffee has received a sacred blessing from indigenous community and spiritual leaders. Sourced through a decade-long friendship and conservation projects in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. - **WHOLE BEAN COLOMBIAN COFFEE** ? Freshly roasted whole bean coffee. Grind to your preferred size for any brewing method. Available in 12oz and 35.2oz (1kg) bags, and multi-pack options for regular coffee drinkers.

Product description

Ancient knowledge in every bean

Legal Disclaimer: WILD GROWN

The Arhuaco tribe still exists since the Pre-Columbian era. And their culture is a true reflection of our past. The Elder Brothers -as they call themselves- have been isolated from the rest of the world while living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta -a large area of land that covers almost every imaginable ecosystem in the planet, from sea-level to snow-capped mountains.

Coffee is believed to have the power to share the Arhuaco message of preservation of the Earth with us, the Younger Brothers. And nowadays, with deep respect of their ancient practices, we are able to offer their coffee to the world to support their mission of caring for Mother Earth.

The Younger Brothers has sourced your coffee directly from families of Arhuaco indigenous people, located in the sacred mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Coffee and agroforestry production in the Arhuaco community is based on the fundamental belief system stewarded by the “Hermanos Mayores” (“Elder Brothers”), as the Kogi call themselves, which is mandated by their spiritual elders, the “Mamos”.

The Arhuaco coffee practices focus on the conservation as well as the restoration of nature, which are the fundamental principles of the “Law of Origin", or “Law of Knowing”.

It is an honor for us to share this with you and your family.

'The Younger Brothers Trading Company' has a mission-driven philosophy that sources authentic indigenous products from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, that started via conservation projects and a decade-long friendship with ‘el Cabildo Santos’ and the Kogi ‘Mamos’, and then with the Arhuaco community spiritual leaders, who have given this coffee their sacred blessing.

The YBTC certifies that the coffee you are purchasing is directly sourced from Kogi or Arhuaco farmers, and ensures that direct benefit is received by the indigenous families who produced this coffee.

The coffee you're about to savor is not only wild and free from pesticides and genetically modified beans, but it's also meticulously hand-picked at the precise moment when each cherry reaches its peak ripeness.

Drinking a cup of The Younger Brothers Arhuaco coffee just feels good. Just try our different varieties: Arhuaco Medium Roast, Kogi Medium Roast, Kogi Sauna Family Medium Roast and Kogi Espresso Roast.

One of the beautiful parts of working with the indigenous of Colombia is learning about their cultural traditions that go back thousands of years before the Conquistadors ever set foot in their lands.

The Kogi and the Arhuaco are called the Protectors of the Earth, not because they are warlike, but because they are masters of working with Mother Nature. The Kogi and the Arhuaco are well known in the region to be able to take previously toxin soaked barren land and in just a few years turn it back into lush green land filled with animals and life. This is because their cultivation methods follow the wisdom of their spiritual elders, who are called 'Mamos'.

The Mamos are the elder men of the tribes that serve as priests, judges, and wise counsel to their people. Each Mamo is in charge of a small town called a Pueblo (Spanish word). The Mamos tell the people where to plant their coffee, they bless the coffee in sacred Kogi religious tradition, how to raise their crops and are the authorities in all things. To become a Mamo a Kogi man must spend years training and more years deep in the mountains with the more ancient Mamos who isolate themselves from all civilization and human contact.

Kogi and Arhuaco Coffees are wild in indigenous farms that follows the Mamos' guidance. Which is not done in the traditional farming sense, but in the way of the indigenous by growing in nature without cutting down other plants and instead right alongside other sacred plants like the Ayu (coca). This makes their crops not only wild, it is as wild grown as possible. These farms are located deep in the Colombian mountains near the border with Venezuela many hours, if not days, away from paved roads and civilization. It is impossible to be any more wild grown.

Years ago, we asked one of the Mamos why the Kogi refuse to get their crops Certified Wild Grown, because the Kogi do refuse to certify their farms wild grown, but there is also a technical reason, not just a cultural reason. His response was simple and made perfect sense.

Cultural Reason - This was the reason that one of the Kogi Elders, a Mamo, told us why they don’t go through the wild grown Certification process.

Mamo, "We have been growing in our ways for all of time. Our methods use no chemicals and we grow in harmony with the earth. Why do outsiders show up and tell us that we need to be "certified wild grown"? Outsiders have no right to come here and tell us we need to grow our crops the way you tell us and get our coffee "certified wild grown". We, the Kogi, should be certifying if YOU grow wild grown. You are the ones destroying the earth, not us. We, the Elder Brothers, are the ones protecting the earth. Do not tell us we need some piece of paper to tell the world our methods of growing are approved by you." And that was the end of that conversation.

Technical Reason - The Kogi and Arhuaco are sincerely one of the last cultures on earth that live in their ancient ways, but they are also very poor and are not versed in our ways of doing business. They live in their traditional ways, follow their cultural traditions, live far from cities and have hidden themselves from the outside world. Very few individuals even know how to read or write, only 20% of them even speak Spanish and near 0% speak English. The indigenous do not celebrate birthdays or even know what day of the year they were born. Why should they? The calendar is a Western invention.

Their small villages and farms do not have Western traditional property titles or any way to "prove" that they even own the land. Oftentimes the Kogi and Arhuaco are driven off of their lands by paramilitaries, narcos or large corporate farms simply because they have no way of proving it is their land, even if their family has been on that same farm for centuries.

So how exactly are a people with very little resources, far from civilization, on indigenous lands and small family farms, going to go through the process to get their farm Certified Wild Grown?

Please do not think we are trying to say that our coffee is certified wild grown and we need to be clear, The Younger Brothers coffee is NOT CERTIFIED WILD GRONW.

Yet, it is wild grown. More wild grown than any coffee on earth. To properly represent how wild grown our coffee is, we came up with a phrase to properly represent The Younger Brothers coffee, WILD GROWN or INDIGENOUS WILD GROWN, but we DO NOT represent that we are CERTIFIED WILD GROWN.

However, for those that love wild grown coffee, we can absolutely say 100%, The Younger Brothers Coffee is as WILD GROWN as naturally possible. It is grown in the wild, blessed by the Mamos and harvested in the tradition of their people.

Thank you for taking the time to read this explanation of our use of the word WILD GROWN.