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The Guadalupe Miramar is a small community up in the mountains of the Tlaxiaco district in the municipality of Santa Maria Yucuhiti in the Mixteca region. To get to Guadalupe Miramar we first travel the highway from Oaxaca for 5 hours, the last half hour of which are dirt roads. The coffee farms are located near the center of the community, about a 20-minute walk. One great advantage here is that the farms are so close to the highway, meaning that, unlike many neighboring communities, Guadalupe Miramar’s don’t need mules to transport their coffee. This community’s farms are small enough that family and communal labor is enough for the coffee harvest. Producers here often use coffee pulp for fertilizer.

Producers in Guadalupe Miramar usually have their own washing stations at home. They ferment their coffee for 48 hours in wooden tanks or plastic cylinders, then dry it for 10 to 14 days on raised beds. Producers usually keep a distance of 2 meters between rows and 1.5 meters between seedlings. Between each row, they place a plant that serves to separate the rows and keep the coffee trees apart.Producers use native trees such as ice cream bean trees and pines to shade their coffee trees. These trees provide not only shade, but also various benefits such as food, ornamentation, medicine, construction materials, nitrogen fixing, and water retention.

The Guadalupe area was dominated by a single cooperative until 2018, when a group of producers from the area sought new markets where they could differentiate their coffees by quality and improve their profits.

Currently, the producers in the community have organized themselves strategically, electing a steering committee and its leaders annually. When asked if they would ever want to form a cooperative, they affirmed that they plan to continue working as they do now: a well-organized and democratic community of coffee producers.