If you follow coffee news you'll probably be aware that El Salvador's coffee industry has been rusty for a while now. Even though leaf rust has only been a real issue for the past couple of years, we have actually been perfecting rust resistant varieties since 2009. At around that time it became perfectly clear that the rust epidemic hitting Brazil and Colombia would eventually reach El Salvador, so we started looking into rust resistant varieties. After finding a suitable variety, we did something that most people at the time thought as insane... we yanked out all of our well loved and productive Pacas trees in favor of the then relatively unknown variety Marsellesa. Since then we have been carefully removing any trees that show the slightest sign of rust, and replacing them with healthy trees. This has resulted in breeding a real rust-proof tree, our customers agree, not one of them has reported rust in any of their trees grown from our seeds.

Marsellesa is a Sarchimor; the interbreeding of Timor Hybrid CIFC 832/2 x Villa Sarchi, for some time now, it's been sought after for its strong resistance to rust and superior coffee flavor. It's a super tough plant that produces very large volumes of coffee, and is not only resistant to rust, but also large amounts of rainfall that have become common place due to global warming. It is very clear to us that this is the plant represents the future of the coffee industry in El Salvador, and we are very proud to be one of / if not the first farms to fully embrace it.

Planting them in rows allows us to easily renew the property yearly and in an orderly fashion. row #1 will be responsible for 65% of a years crop, row #2 is in it’s recovering phase (will take #1’s place next year), its responsible for 25% of the crop and #3 is the row that was pruned (will take #2’s spot nest year) and is responsible for 10% of a years crop.

Doing this allows us to keep the trees healthy, and since the farm is in perpetual renovation we have a stable crop year after year.