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My father bought this property from my grand father in 1959. It was a virgin mountain and the only way to get there was riding on horseback. We started to build the country house and the coffee plantation with the traditional under the shade system. At the beginning the road ended 14 kms before the farm so we had to transport the building stuff by mule and we did the same thing to get the crop out of the farm to the road. In 1974 this farm became the best one in infrastructure and plantation of the zone according to the information we received from the oldest producers in our vicinity. By that time the road got to the farm but, it was not always in good condition so we had to use the mule system again.
Hard work, effort, sacrifice and dedication have allowed us to increase our coffee production year after year.
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By 1982 the farm was abandoned due to the lack of security we faced during that period of time. We came back ten years later in 1992 everything had been destroyed there were only few coffee bushes in very bad shape. There was no country house, no Wet Mill building… and yet we could not start working because there were a lot of landmines buried in the whole property . We just built a small house to watch over the farm. We waited until 1997 to begin the coffee plantation. By the year 2000 we have 6 manazanas (4.25 hectare) of coffee in production but in very bad shape and without management. 
In 2004 I inherited this property harvesting only 3 green coffee quintals per manzana, with an improvised Wet Mill building , and a house in very bad conditions with capacity of 12 people , it could barely fulfill the basic needs to live in . We had economical, as well as access difficulty because the road was in bad shape and only four wheel drive vehicles were able to get there during some time of the year however we started managing the coffee plantation.