Overview

Água Limpa Farm is located in Vale da Grama, in the border with the city of Poços de Caldas, South of Minas. The region has lands from volcanic origin that are very fertile, with high altitudes and mild average temperature. It originally belonged to Mr. Sebastião Lázaro Ribeiro de Andrade and Mrs. Maria Oliveira de Andrade, who built the coffee patios, the machinery house and the farmhouse almost one century ago. At this same period, it was cultivated the first crops too. Nowadays the owners by inheritance are the couple Mrs. Lucy Ribeiro de Andrade Cyrino Nogueira and Mr. Plínio Cyrino Nogueira, including their children. With a traditional expertise in the production of high quality coffee, the varieties of coffee planted on the farm are: Red and Yellow Bourbon, Red and Yellow Mundo Novo and Catuaí. The seedlings of Bourbon are cultivated on the farm and come from the seeds that are taken from that same land and adapted to the region. The owners keep a constant concern on the environment, preserving the native wood and the rivers, considering the natural resources as the main richness of the property, where we can find fertile land and abundance of water. They also worry about the human resources and because of this, they provide good conditions of life quality to their employees. They have an official soccer field, a sportive court and a club for leisure and parties on the farm for use of the workers.

Processing system of the coffee beans

The harvest on the farm is done by hand, over a cloth, with the help of machinery of harvest, and the coffee is transported, washed and pulped for drying, which is done mainly on patios and, if necessary, it is complemented with the use of driers. The property possess a proper infra-structure for the coffee processing, which is stored in wooden storehouses and rests for at least 30 days while waits for the processing in the machinery installed on the farm since the 50th decade.

Concern on the quality

The Água Limpa Farm is part of the Vale da Grama Association, whose agronomist Mr. Marco Antônio Della Torre supervises the practices and management of the crops. It is also done a diary observation by the technicians Mr. Marcos A. Palchi and Mr. Marcony A. Andrade. The coffee that is identified as a special one by the broker is separated into lots and it rests in the warehouse until the period of transport, processing and preparation for the electronic machinery. This coffee is put on sale for the companies of the special coffee area.