As many of you may already know, Hubbard and Cravens Coffee Co. features a specialty coffee from Costa Rica by the name of Café Herbazu. This crop of coffee was awarded La Cosecha de Oro or The Crop of Gold, as well as the 2005 and 2006 SINTERCAFE award given for the best Estate-Grown Coffee by the Specialty Coffee Association of Costa Rica.

However, what you probably don't know is that the plantation where this award- winning coffee is raised is a family owned and operated plantation. Five of the thirteen brothers in this family actively run the farm, and the whole family participates in one way or another in the sale and development of the plantation. Members of this family, the Barrantes, are planning a visit to Indianapolis on Monday and Tuesday, April 11th and 12th.

While touring the Barrantes 100 acre plantation in the Naranjo de Lourdes de Cirri region of Costa Rica, Marcie and Rick Hubbard developed a close personal, and professional, relationship with the family. Rick participated on the panel of twenty international judges which awarded the Cafe Herbazu coffee with the SINTERCAFE award in 2005.

Hubbard and Cravens is the exclusive carrier of this single origin coffee. The Herbazu farm is 1600 meters above sea level. All of its trees are of the Caturra and Typica varietal which produce the Strictly Hard Bean (a description of the density of the highest quality beans available in the world). These 100% Arabica beans are grown in the rich volcanic soil native to the Naranjo de Lourdes de Cirri region. This region receives nearly 12 hours of sunlight everyday! Not at all like Indiana weather.

We at H & C are proud to have this special coffee as well as this special relationship with the Barrantes family. They will be touring the Broad Ripple and 49th St. locations of Hubbard and Cravens in the morning of Tuesday April 12th, 2006. Feel free to drop in and meet them!