The Mierisch family has been farming coffee in Nicaragua for over 100 years. They spend their days in the high mountains of Nicaragua ’s Matagalpa and Jinotega regions. As a family-run operation, they have produced high quality shade-grown coffee on both sides of their families. Two family stories, that end in coffee farming. Long story short, in the early 1900’s Bruno Mierisch worked with his son Wilfrido on the coffee farms. Then Wilfrido worked with his boys on the coffee farms, and today his boys work with their sons and daughters on the coffee farms.
The biggest challenge in Mama Mina has been the height at which it is located, this due to the large amounts of water that fall annually as well as the clouds that are maintained throughout the day, which allows sunlight to optimize the plants are minimal, it was also a challenge to be able to locate the ideal varieties in those conditions. After many years experiencing different managements to achieve productivity with different varieties, the sowing of the Catuai variety arises, later experimenting with the Java and Pacamara variety, which over time we have generated different types of planting, in order to obtain the productivity of the plant and the results have been successful since the good handling of these varieties is summarized in an excellent quality of coffee.
