Frutado

Born into an agricultural family in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, Inácio Urban moved north to Minas Gerais in the 1980s to pursue the incredible opportunity he saw in the subregion of Cerrado Miniero. Inácio acquired land gradually, starting with just 20 hectares of coffee, and today Fazenda Rio Brilhante is an astonishing 2,700 hectares: about 60% coffee, 20% native forest preserve, and the other 20% cotton, beans, and corn. 

In 2006, Inácio's children joined him in administering the family business. Today the Urban family remains heavily involved in the daily management of the farm, but works in conjunction with the team at Los Volcanes Coffee—our longtime sourcing partners in Guatemala who are running another equally impressive operation in Brazil. Similar to their work with partnered farms in Antigua Guatemala, their purpose is to design and implement agronomic and processing protocols to increase quality and productivity in an ecologically- and socially-responsible manner.