Wilson Morán, Finca La Montañita

In some families, people have been growing coffee for four generations. But I'm a fifth-generation farmer, and that's much rarer, even here in the heart of Ocotepeque.

To this day, my grandfather likes to tell stories about his own grandfather. About how his grandfather used to pay workers two cents of a lempira to pick a bucket of coffee. Now, we pay 30 lempiras, an unfathomable 1,500 times more. And yet, workers only earn around the minimum wage; our currency has simply devalued enormously.

In any case, my family—the generations that came before mine—is my greatest example. My parents taught me everything they knew about coffee, and they passed on to me their passion for this delicious black liquid and all the secrets that surround it.

Now it's my turn to pass on my knowledge and love to my son, who has already made it clear that he wants to be part of the sixth generation. Fortunately, we are able to evolve and continually improve our harvest. My wife and I only have 0.7 hectares of land, so we have to do everything we can to maximize both yield and quality.

We have to overcome many obstacles, such as the terrible state of our roads, if they can even be called roads, and working conditions are often difficult, with either a lot of rain or - the opposite - drought that lasts too long.

But we've learned to process and prepare microlots, and that makes all our efforts worthwhile. In previous years, we had to sell through intermediaries, but now that I'm a member of Cafesmo, I'm very hopeful that we can improve our chances of working more directly. Besides, microlots make me proud of what I do. Without wanting to sound biased, it's much more personally rewarding than simply producing commercial coffee that disappears into the masses.

So, in the coming years, I want to establish direct relationships, I want to prepare my son for his future as a proud sixth-generation coffee farmer, and I want to try to save enough money to buy a little more land. For my wife and me, but also for our son.