The Trejos family, four generations cultivating coffee with soul
High in the hills of Quinchía, where mist embraces the mountains and dawns awaken with the scent of damp earth, the Trejos family's coffee tradition was born more than eighty years ago. There, amidst verdant slopes and profound silences, what we know today as Alma Batero began to take shape: a dream sown by our great-grandparents, who dedicated their lives to the land, to working together, and to coffee as a noble way of inhabiting and honoring their territory.
The Trejos Family
Our great-grandfather , Juan de Dios Trejos , a descendant of Antioquian muleteers who settled in the El Morro area of Quinchía, joined his life with that of Edubina Guapacha , a native heiress to extensive lands in the region. Twelve children were born from this union, among them our grandfather , Ramón Trejos . The story goes that Juan de Dios, in addition to being a coffee farmer by vocation, was a self-taught healer: a man dedicated to serving his community. After his marriage, he took his wife's land and, with patience and vision, transformed it from dense forests into fertile coffee plantations that began to provide sustenance and purpose for entire generations.
Ramón Trejos married Amanda Franco , daughter of Antonio Franco and Felicia Yépez; a family from Donmatías, Antioquia, marked by their deep faith and missionary tradition. Together, Ramón and Amanda made their heritage a living legacy.
From this union, fifteen children were born, the generation of our parents, uncles, and aunts. The Trejos grandparents strengthened the farm and perfected the manual harvesting practices, teaching each son and daughter that coffee is not just a crop: it is a way of life and a school of values, that the countryside requires perseverance and respect . Over time, the grandparents expanded their lands to areas closer to the town—La Cuchilla, Miracampo, and finally Riogrande—seeking not only prosperity but also education and well-being for their large family.
Our parents, uncles, and aunts have become tireless guardians of the farm. They kept the heritage alive even when the mountain demanded effort, patience, and resilience . Thanks to them, the coffee continued to flourish, even during the hardest years of violence and scarcity.
Today, more than eighty years later, a new generation takes the reins. Cousins, nephews, and new hands at Trejos have decided to go a step further: to move from cultivating exceptional coffee to transforming it into a final product that carries our essence, history, and the soul of our land and family into every cup.
What for decades was a family farm dedicated to selling parchment coffee is now entering a new phase. We've learned about processes, fermentations, cup profiles, and controlled processing. We grew up playing among the coffee plants and trained to understand coffee from plant to cup. Today, we're ready to share with the world a coffee that respects its origin, honors its history, and carries with it the spirit of those who planted it with love .