Maidy Bocanegra and her husband, Alberto Mendez, moved to Pitalito in 2020 to establish their coffee farm, Finca Los Limones, named for the previous use of the land to cultivate limes. They moved from a background of cattle farming in Cauca having been displaced by guerrilla warfare. 2 of the 3 hectares are planted out with various cultivars of coffee, including Castillo, Pink Bourbon and Papayo (a rather unusual Ethiopian cultivar with elongated, papaya-shaped coffee cherries). With help from Caravela’s PECA (agronomical training team) program they are evolving their farm’s infrastructure and protocols to maximise the quantity and quality of their harvest.