SITIO BELIS ATOK BENGUET PHILIPPINES

SITIO BELIS ATOK BENGUET PHILIPPINES

200g / Whole Bean
₱900.00
Sale price  ₱900.00 Regular price 
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SITIO BELIS ATOK BENGUET PHILIPPINES

SITIO BELIS ATOK BENGUET PHILIPPINES

Peanut Brittle, Honey, and Calamansi
₱900.00
Sale price  ₱900.00 Regular price 

When we first spoke with Ate Marites, there was no ceremony to it. She knew her natural process from her washed. They were methods shaped by repetition and by seasons that taught her what worked and what didn’t.

We tasted her naturals and found them clean in every way that stayed with us. It made us wonder what else the coffee could become, if given the chance to move differently. In 2020, we took that risk and we tried something simple. We took what could have been a science project and made it into something that could be explained over a phone call. There were no labs but it was fueled only with conversation, trust, and the willingness to try.

Size200g

Origin

Mt. Apo, Davao del Sur

Elevation

1,500 - 1700mASL

Varietal

Catimor

Process

Natural Process

ABOUT MARITES ARELLANO

When we first spoke with Ate Marites, there was no ceremony to it. She knew her natural process from her washed. They were methods shaped by repetition and by seasons that taught her what worked and what didn’t.

We tasted her naturals and found them clean in every way that stayed with us. It made us wonder what else the coffee could become, if given the chance to move differently. In 2020, we took that risk and we tried something simple. We took what could have been a science project and made it into something that could be explained over a phone call. There were no labs but it was fueled only with conversation, trust, and the willingness to try.

That lot went on and gave her a win at the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition.

Since then, her name has traveled farther than her land ever asked it to. It appears on bags now, carried into spaces she may never see. We’ve watched those wins accumulate as proof of work that had always been there.

Life, of course, did not make things easy. There were obstacles that had nothing to do with coffee, the kind that test whether you stay or step away. Ate Marites stayed.

And so did we, in the ways we could, because relationships, if they are to mean anything, have to exist beyond transactions.

When we turned the machine back on, her coffees had changed. They had matured, carrying more depth, more shape. But her steadiness remained the same, and she remained rooted in her care for her family, and in a kind of quiet commitment to her craft that does not ask to be noticed, only continued.

Some stories move quickly. This one didn’t, and that, perhaps, is what made it last.

Sa unang higayon nga nakaistorya mi kang Ate Marites, wala jud to’y seremonyas. Kabalo na siya sa iyang proseso—ma-natural ug ma-washed—tungod sa balik-balik nga praktis ug sa mga panahon nga nagtudlo unsay mugana ug unsay dili.
Nakatilaw mi sa iyang natural, ug limpyo kaayo kini, klaro kaayo ang lasa. Mao to nga nakapangutana mi sa among kaugalingon: unsa pa kaha ang mahimong itsura sa iyang kape kung naa pay lain nga paagi nga mabuhat? Kadtong 2020, gisulayan namo bisag walay kasiguruhan. Gipa-simple namo ang murag science project. Gihimo namo nga mas sayon—kanang pwede ra masabtan pinaagi sa tawag. Wala ma’y laboratoryo, nabuhat kanamo bahin lang ug storya, pagsalig, ug pagsulay.
Mao kato ang nakapadaog kang Ate Marites sa Philippine Coffee Quality Competition.
Sukad ato, ang iyang ngalan nakaabot na sa lain-laing lugar. Makita na nimo sa mga bag sa kape, dala ngadto sa mga ciudad nga basin wala pa niya maadtoan. Ug kami, lipay kaayo mi sa iyang mga naabot kay kabalo mi nga dugay na gyud na niyang trabaho.
Dili sayon ang kinabuhi. Daghan gihapon og hagit nga dili lang bahin sa kape. Pero wala siya mihawa. Nipadayon siya.
Ug kami pud, nagpabilin. Bisan pa tong panahon nga wala miy baligya, nagpadayon gihapon mi og kumusta kaniya dili tungod kay kinahanglan, pero tungod kay kung tinuod ang relasyon, dili lang siya kutob sa transaksyon.
Pag-abli namo balik sa roastery, lain na pud ang iyang kape. Mas nigrabe ang klaro nga lasa og ang karakter sa iyahang kape. Pero si Ate Marites, mao gihapon—lig-on, nakapundar sa iyang gugma sa pamilya ug sa iyang trabaho.
Naay mga paagi sa kinabuhi nga paspas og sayon. Ang kang Ate Marites, dili. Ug basin mao na’y hinungdan nganong nagpadayon siya.
ABOUT SITIO PLUTO

Work happens early in Sitio Pluto. Coffee trees stand alongside other crops, part of a landscape that has learned to survive by not depending on a single promise. It portrays a scene reflecting a system of care built over time.

Coffee in Pluto is tied to land that must also feed families. It must weather amidst change, and is made with choices that are often taken with more caution than certainty. Many farmers here grow coffee alongside other crops, not because diversification is trendy, but because it is necessary, echoing the same sentiment of most coffee-growing laborers in the country. Resilience is a condition for staying.

In recent years, attention has begun to turn toward places like Balutacay. From having been overlooked, the language of “specialty” reached these hills, bringing with it both opportunity and tension. Opportunity, because better prices and recognition became possible. Tension, because the standards of quality are often written elsewhere, and must be translated into realities that do not always align.

This is where the work becomes relational.

From building trust slowly through shared learning from both mistakes that are allowed to happen and conversations that return even when there is no immediate outcome, progress breathes. Coffee improves through technique, continuity, and a community that chooses to stay in dialogue.

Sitio Pluto might continue to grow in names or titles but what matters is that farmers continue to experiment within their means, knowledge moves, and the agricultural scene is room for learning.

If there is something to understand about coffee from places like this, it is that value is rarely immediate. The most important thing is not how quickly a place becomes known but how carefully it is allowed to grow.

Sayo magsugod ang trabaho sa Purok Pluto. Ang mga kahoy sa kape nagtindog uban sa ubang tanom, kabahin sa usa ka yuta nga nakakat-on na unsaon pagpadayon pinaagi sa dili pagsalig sa usa lang ka saad. Murag hulagway kini sa usa ka pamaagi sa pag-atiman nga hinay-hinay natukod sa paglabay sa panahon.
Ang kape sa Pluto nakaugat sa yuta nga kinahanglan pud mopakaon sa pamilya. Kinahanglan kini makasugakod sa kausaban, ug gihimo pinaagi sa mga desisyon nga kasagaran gihuna-hunaan pag-ayo, dili sigurado pero kinahanglan buhaton. Daghang mag-uuma diri nagtanom og kape uban sa lain-laing tanom. Dili tungod kay uso, kundi tungod kay mao gyud ang kinahanglan. Pareho ra gihapon sa kasinatian sa daghang mag-uuma og kape sa tibuok nasud. Ang paglahutay dili kapilian. Kondisyon kini aron mulahutay.
Sa miaging mga tuig, nagsugod og lingi ang atensyon padulong sa mga lugar sama sa Balutacay. Gikan sa dugay nga wala kaayo makita, nakaabot ang pulong nga “specialty” sa kabukiran, nagdala og oportunidad ug tensyon. Oportunidad, kay posible na ang mas maayong presyo ug pag-ila. Pero adunay tensyon, kay ang mga sukdanan sa kalidad kasagaran gihimo sa lain nga lugar, ug kinahanglan pa ihubad ngadto sa realidad nga dili pirmi magkatakdo.
Busa gatuo mi nga importante gyud ang pagpakig-uban sa mga mag-uuma.
Ang epektibo nga binuhatan nibunga sa pinaagi sa hinay nga pagtukod og pagsalig, sa pagkat-on nga magkuyog, sa mga sayop nga gitugotan mahitabo, ug sa mga estorya nga magpadayon bisan walay dayon nga resulta. Ang kape molambo pinaagi sa pamaagi, padayon nga praktis, ug komunidad nga mopili nga magpabilin sa panagsulti.
Magpadayon pa siguro ang Purok Pluto bog tubo sa ngalan o titulo, pero ang mas importante mao nga ang mga mag-uuma magpadayon pod og sulay sulay sulod sa ilang kaya, ang kahibalo maglihok, ug ang uma mahimong lugar sa pagkat-on.
Kung adunay usa ka butang nga masabtan gikan sa kape sa mga lugar sama niini, mao nga ang bili dili dayon makita. Ang pinakapuno nga butang dili kung unsa ka paspas mailhan ang usa ka lugar, kundi kung unsa ka maampingon kini patuboon.

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