In Colombia's Eje Cafetero, Coffee Is Just the Beginning
The first customer to eat at Helena Adentro arrived on horseback. The first nonindigenous settlers in the area arrived along a similar route in the early 19th century. It was carried in, the story goes, by Jesuit missionaries who prescribed its planting as penance. From left: Towering wax palms in Colombia’s Cocora Valley; Carlos Alberto Zuluaga Mejía at his coffee farm, Finca El Recuerdo.Credit: Caroll Taveras Zuluagas 10-acre farm near the village of Salento is a throwback to the regions earliest plantations....