Rubén Dario Gómez
🇨🇴Colombia

Rubén Dario Gómez

Rubén Dario Gómez co-produces coffee with his wife, Rosa Eleny Gómez, at Finca El Faldón in El Noque near Caicedo, Antioquia. Their two-hectare farm reaches 2,100 meters and supplies a long-running Partners Coffee relationship.

Farm: Finca El Faldón →

History

Rubén worked for about 20 years as a traveling farm laborer before saving enough to buy El Faldón. Partners Coffee first tasted his coffee in 2015 and has purchased every subsequent harvest he offered, nearly 20 lots because this part of Colombia has a biennial cycle.

The farmer's day, in pictures

Editorial illustrations of the harvest and farm work our research documented — anonymous figures, never real likenesses.

Rubén Dario Gómez — coffee farmer illustration 1
Rubén Dario Gómez — coffee farmer illustration 2
Rubén Dario Gómez — coffee farmer illustration 3
Coffees by Rubén Dario Gómez