Fernanda S. Maciel Raucci has been running Fazenda Terra Preta since 1990, but coffee farming has been a family tradition since the beginning of the last century, the so-calledÊ’golden age’ of culture in the country. Fernanda inherited her father’s Curral de Pedras farm in 1981. The property was divided between Fernanda and her sister so it’s fair to say coffee culture is in the blood.Ê “I have always been interested and tried to improve the quality of the coffee produced on the farm as much as possible, through courses and technical support for management”, she explains. The Terra Preta farm has 236.7 hectares, 42 of which are dedicated to coffee cultivation, where around 1,200 bags of coffee are harvested annually. The other areas of the property are divided between sugarcane cultivation and pasture. To achieve the highest quality, Fernanda states that “a variety of special precautions are taken, such as harvesting with machines or cloth, without letting the beans fall to the ground, proper washing and separation, drying up to 15 days, and some factors from the Alta Mogiana region itself contribute to the quality of the bean.”

REGION – Alta Mogiana
CITY – Pedregulho
STATE – S‹o Paulo
ALTITUDE – 1100 m
SIZE – 42 ha
COUNTRY – Brazil
VARIETAL – Catua’
HARVEST METHOD – Manual Picking
PROCESS METHOD – Natural
ANNUAL RAINFALL – 1584 mmble climate and soil.