Vascafé - coffee tour | Tourist Attraction

Colombia

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Alejandro Vásquez Giraldo is an agricultural engineer, who runs a 20,000 m² farm with 6,000+ coffee plants (and 1,200 banana, some avocado trees and some sugar cane). The farm also has (2.5) cows and goats and some fowl.

The entire process of coffee growing is shown: from seed to small plants in a pot to harvesting the fruits on a full grown plant, (mechanically) peeling them, drying, (manually) sorting etc. Any question is welcome (including technical ones): about biologically circular systems to what fertilizer is used. Or about the 'why' for the plastic bags around the bananas.

Once the beans are peeled, dried and selected, they are sold (most through a 'cooperativa' to Nestlé), but the tour does not stop there: you get to roast beans in a pan, 'casera' style, grind them and make coffee (using 'aguapanella' if you'd like). And then drink coffee 'grown here, harvested here, roasted here, brewn here', part of which you participated in. (Another part of the harvest is available, professionally roasted and ground, in local stores (and this farm), under the name 'Valcafé'.)

We found this small scale farm a great place to learn about the process and the individual nature of the tour (we were only two, and Alejandro) made that we had all of our questions answered.

Alejandro speaks Spanish, but adapts to foreigners (in the sense that he knows to speak slowly and explain again using other words). Appointments can be made through WhatsApp: +57 311 370 3682.

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Come here for a cafe tour.
Very very good.
The owner is a lovely man who shows you everything from the start to the finish.
Paid 35,000 paso.
Approx 2.5 hours.
You will taste the coffee at the end.
Can recommend here. Great small family farm.

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I didn't do any coffee tours before, so for me it's hard to compare. Yet, I really enjoyed this one! Especially loved its interactivity, where I could personally participate in all the steps of coffee gathering and even toast the coffee beans. Needless to say, the coffee you cook yourself is the best :)
And Alejandro, and all his family are really nice persons, so the whole tour felt like visiting someb good old friends.
Paid 35000 pesos, but I was the only person. Maybe it's cheaper for groups.

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We paid COP 25,000 per person (and felt we supported this family enterprise this way).

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Alejandro Vásquez Giraldo is an agricultural engineer, who runs a 20,000 m² farm with 6,000+ coffee plants (and 1,200 banana, some avocado trees and some sugar cane). The farm also has (2.5) cows and goats and some fowl.

The entire process of coffee growing is shown: from seed to small plants in a pot to harvesting the fruits on a full grown plant, (mechanically) peeling them, drying, (manually) sorting etc. Any question is welcome (including technical ones): about biologically circular systems to what fertilizer is used. Or about the 'why' for the plastic bags around the bananas.

Once the beans are peeled, dried and selected, they are sold (most through a 'cooperativa' to Nestlé), but the tour does not stop there: you get to roast beans in a pan, 'casera' style, grind them and make coffee (using 'aguapanella' if you'd like). And then drink coffee 'grown here, harvested here, roasted here, brewn here', part of which you participated in. (Another part of the harvest is available, professionally roasted and ground, in local stores (and this farm), under the name 'Valcafé'.)

We found this small scale farm a great place to learn about the process and the individual nature of the tour (we were only two, and Alejandro) made that we had all of our questions answered.

Alejandro speaks Spanish, but adapts to foreigners (in the sense that he knows to speak slowly and explain again using other words). Appointments can be made through WhatsApp: +57 311 370 3682.

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