This coffee is produced by two coffee growers' cooperatives that bring together more than 240 families in the Planadas and Gaitania areas. Each farmer owns between 2 and 4 hectares. These terroirs are protected areas for these indigenous peoples, with more than 6,000 trees per hectare. This coffee has been decaffeinated at the Decaf factory in Manizales, Colombia, using the Sugar Cane Decaf process. This decaffeination process consists of extracting the caffeine using ethyl acetate, which comes from sugar cane. Good to know: the coffee is certified organic before it is decaffeinated. However, the sugar cane used to produce the ethyl acetate is not certified organic.