The coffee tradition in the Dias family started back in 1890, when hundreds of plants were cultivated in order to boost production. As a result, a “sea of coffee plants” demanded lots of work for the harvest and maintenance during the year and a large workforce was needed. For this reason, the farm owners offered housing to workers and their families and a mini city with good infrastructure. The colônias ” were pretty common back in the end of the 19 th century, but this changed over time. Nowadays, it is really rare to find this infrastructure on coffee farms. Recreio Farm, however, continues this tradition and has a total of 68 fully furnished houses maintained for the comfort of its collaborators.

Educated as an Agricultural Engineer, Diogo Dias Teixeira de Macedo is responsible for managing the farm. Following in his parents’ footsteps, Mr. Homero Teixeira de Macedo Júnior and Maria Dias Teixeira de Macedo , he started working on the property in 2000. In the part few years, he has been working to combine tradition and innovation in order to produce the best coffees and the prizes at quality contests are crowning his legacy.

Due to the topography of the region, the harvest is done by hand over cloths and it starts in the middle of May (when the fruit displays good maturation and a small percentage of green fruits). The processing methods most often applied to the crops are wet and pulped natural, in which the ripe fruits are separated from the others and mechanically pulped. The picked coffee is washed, separated, pulped and spread on the patio on the same day, remaining there until reaching an average humidity of 20%, when it goes to the dryer  The coffee remains in the dryer until reaching 11% humidity, only then it is sent to boxes to “rest” and homogenize the drying process. It remains there for at least 30 days before it is forwarded to other processing phases. Every single bean is tracked from harvest to shipping and exclusive warehouses guarantee that Recreio Estate Coffee products will keep their quality to the final destination.