About Originares

Originares is dedicated to connecting local communities and international consumers through traditional specialty products. When producers and consumers together appreciate territorial specialties, they combine social, ecological, and economic exchange for complete value. We believe that such shared enjoyment is essential to sustainable territorial development and global climate health.

Territorial specialty coffee emerges over time through productive and emotional relations between communities and landscapes. It carries the distinctive values and meanings - the identity - of the territory, with its traditions, culture, and worldview. It is adapted to and make best sustainable use of local natural resources. Territorial specialty coffee cannot be commodified.

TAIRONA Ancestral by Aso-Arhuaco is our first territorial specialty product. We hope you will enjoy it as one of the world’s highest quality coffee beans. We also hope that you will come to know the unique territory of the Linea Negra of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and its Tairona-descendant Indigenous Peoples.

In the next few years we want to work with more communities and landscapes to identify, support, and market other territorial specialty coffee beans. We would like Originares to become your way of choosing and buying great coffee directly from grower communities, and of knowing the world's best coffee-producing territories.

WIth love for community and landscape,
Omaira and Rodney