Origin
Pangantucan, Bukidnon
Elevation
1,400 - 1,700mASL
Varietal
Ethiopian Landrace
Process
Various Processes
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SITIO SAN ROQUE PIGTAURANAN BUKIDNON PHILIPPINES
₱850.00
One of our solutions to make everyday coffee still taste good without being specialty grade is this release. We manually sorted the defects of this harvest post-roast and profiled it to fit the notes people generally look for in an everyday cup.
Though we make less by doing this, we believe it is an important avenue for conversations that can lead to action.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Similar in values, KALSADA focuses not only on how to make coffee better alone, but also on how to make its value honest. For too long, Filipino farmers have been romanticized for resilience while being priced out of dignity. KALSADA sat in backyards and barangay halls, in between rows of drying beds and handwritten ledgers, and listened until the stories became a map.
Kalsada was built from that map: from trust earned slowly, from partnerships that feel less like contracts and more like shared breaths. We source from them because they invest in what matters: equipment that lifts quality, systems that reward skill, wages that respect time and care.
Every bag we roast is part of a long conversation between craft and community, between what coffee is and what it could mean. We refuse to romanticize struggle and are here to make sure hard work leads toward fairness, sustainability, and a future where young Filipinos can see coffee not as an inheritance alone, but as a possibility. This is why we trust KALSADA as a producer, and we’ve seen their work even before we became professionals working in coffee, as well.
KALSADA’s work is simple, though never easy: to tell the world that Philippine specialty coffee has always been here, waiting to be seen, understood, and shared.
ABOUT THE ORIGIN
The first fruity local coffee we’ve tasted was a harvest from Pigtauranan, Bukidnon, in 2019, processed and roasted by KALSADA, when they were still running a roastery and cafe. This was why this origin has deeper roots for us and also why we were willing to believe in its potential, even if we knew it wouldn’t be specialty grade yet.
KALSADA’s story in Bukidnon began in 2018, though “begin” is never quite the right word. In truth, it started with failure: a first attempt at building a partner community in Mindanao that did not hold. Sometimes the soil resists you. Sometimes, it asks that you learn its language first.
By 2020, KALSADA tried again. This time, the rhythm was slower, humbler, steadier. In three years, what began as a handful of conversations became a living network of 114 farmer-families. Together, they built what is now the Pigtauranan mill, where both specialty arabica and fine robusta are processed, where cherries travel hours by road from neighboring Bukidnon towns, and sometimes even from Sultan Kudarat, six hours away.
Then, in early 2023, the world finally took notice. When Blue Bottle Coffee released its first Philippine offerings, they chose two lots from Sitio San Roque: a natural-processed Typica known simply as Sweet, and an anaerobic Catimor that carried the sun and persistence. To most, it was just another product launch. To KALSADA, it was five years of patience distilled into a cup: years of cupping tables, quality assessments, and quiet faith.
But the truest measure of this milestone was never the export or the acclaim. It was what happened afterward when families in Sitio San Roque began using their coffee earnings to endure the pandemic, to pay off long-standing debts, to breathe easier for the first time in a generation.
This is what specialty means to us. Not luxury, not rarity, but a kind of transformation, which we and KALSADA both root for: the slow, deliberate work of turning struggle into possibility, and coffee into a language of hope.
Niadtong 2019, nakatilaw mi ug pinakauna namo nga lokal nga lami nga kape nga nag gikan sa Pigtauranan, Bukidnon, nga giproseso ug gi-roast sa KALSADA, sa dihang nagpadagan pa sila og roastery ug cafe adtong panahona. Mao kini ang hinungdan nganong kini nga kape adunay mas lawom nga kamahinungdanon alang kanamo ug nganong motuo gyud mi sa potensyal niini, bisan kung nahibal-an namon nga dili pa kini espesyal nga grado.
Ang istorya sa KALSADA sa Bukidnon nagsugod niadtong 2018, bisan kung ang "pagsugod" dili gyud ang husto nga pulong. Sa tinuud, nagsugod sila sa kapakyasan: usa ka unang pagsulay sa pagtukod og usa ka kauban nga komunidad sa Mindanao nga wala molampos. Usahay ang yuta mosukol. Usahay, muhangyo kini nga paminawon usa kanimo ug tun-an.
Pag-abot sa 2020, misulay usab ang KALSADA. Niining higayona, ang ritmo mas hinay, mas mapaubsanon, ug mas lig-on. Sulod sa tulo ka tuig, ang nagsugod sa sultihanay lang nahimong usa ka buhing network sa 114 ka mga pamilyang mag-uuma. Kauban nila gitukod ang gitawag karon nga Pigtauranan mill, diin giproseso ang specialty arabica ug fine robusta, diin ang mga seresa mobiyahe og daghang oras pinaagi sa dalan gikan sa silingang mga lungsod sa Bukidnon. Usahay gikan pa gani sa Sultan Kudarat nga unom ka oras ang gilay-on.
Unya, sa sayong bahin sa 2023, sa katapusan nakamatikod ang kalibutan. Gipagawas sa Blue Bottle Coffee ang unang mga tanyag niini sa Pilipinas. Nipili sila og duha ka lote gikan sa Sitio San Roque: usa ka natural-processed nga Typica nga gianggaan nila nga Sweet, ug usa ka anaerobic Catimor nga nagdala sa adlaw ug paglahutay. Para sa kadaghanan, usa lamang kini ka paglansad sa produkto. Pero para sa KALSADA, kini ang lima ka tuig nga pailub nga gihimo nga usa ka tasa: mga tuig sa pag-cupping, pagtimbang sa kalidad, ug hilom nga pagtuo.
Apan ang labing tinuod nga sukod niining panghitabo dili ang pag-eksport o ang pagdayeg. Kini ang nahitabo pagkahuman sa dihang ang mga pamilya sa Sitio San Roque nagsugod sa paggamit sa ilang kita sa kape aron makalahutay sa pandemya, aron mabayran ang dugay nang mga utang, aron makaginhawa nga mas sayon sa unang higayon sa usa ka henerasyon.
Mao kini ang pasabot namo sa specialty. Dili luho, dili talagsaon, kondili usa ka matang sa pagbag-o, nga among gisuportahan ug sa KALSADA: ang hinay ug tinuyo nga paghimo sa pakigbisog nga mahimong posibilidad, ug ang kape nga usa ka pinulongan sa paglaum.