The Aguiar family has been growing coffee with love for nine generations.
It all began in 1860, when the Aguiar family started growing coffee in Santo Antônio do Amparo, in the south of Minas Gerais, a region famous for coffee production. The first chapter of Fazenda Semente was written in the 1970s, when the father and grandfather Edmundo Coutinho Aguiar packed his bags and moved to Patrocínio, in the Cerrado Mineiro. He planted his first coffee trees in 1988 in an area of 24 hectares.

The Aguiar family still proudly produces coffee on the same farm as all those years ago, but on a bigger production area.
Today, Fazenda Semente is run by Virgínia Coutinho Aguiar and her children José Lucas, Maria Vitória and Eugênia. They continue their work with unbreakable passion, dedication and respect for the cherries they produce, while simultaneously paying homage to traditional agricultural practices and embracing new technologies and approaches for sustainable business. The result is a combination of modernity and tradition that assures quality in every cup.

Fazenda Semente is located at 950 meters above sea level just outside Patrocínio, in the Alto Paranaíba region of Minas Gerais, a privileged terroir for growing specialty coffees. More than a million coffee trees grow on 226 hectares of fully irrigated land.

The farm grows varieties suited to the climatic, environmental and soil characteristics of the Cerrado Mineiro. Catuaí, Mundo Novo, Arara, Topázio, Bourbon, Geisha and other types of 100% Arabica coffee  go through careful stages of post-harvest (natural, pulped natural, washed, honey, fermentation) in the search for unique and surprising lots and sensory profiles. Specific microlots are selectively harvested to guarantee the standardization of the fruit and maximum use of the beans.

Since 2016, the farm has been certified with the international seals Rainforest Alliance, 4C, and the Cerrado Mineiro Region, the world’s first Denomination of Origin for coffees.  The certifications attest the family’s environmental concern. A preserved ecological corridor runs through the farm, allowing local flora and fauna to flourish. Additionally, Aguiar family produces their own organic compost made of reused organic residues from coffee production, and they installed solar panels on their processing facilities to produce their own electric energy.

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