Elkin, with his family, wife Fernely and his daughter Dana Yalena who was the inspiration for the name of the farm all together live on this farm. Elkin comes from a coffee producer family. He bought the farm with the money that he had been saving for several years working as a coffee picker on other farms. In the beginning, he only had 500 coffee trees which were insufficient to make living out of it and he decided to move to Medellín, but life in the city was very different and he decided to come back to his farm. This time things were different. Elkin knew that the only way to make it work is to do everything differently. He needed to improve the quality of the cup to get a better price, and he began to produce honey processed coffee.
Elkin realized that picking quality is the key to improve the cup profile. He started paying more to his workers and process coffee differently and more thoroughly. Firstly they remove floaters then depulp and begins drying, carefully raking to ensure even drying process. He is going to learn more techniques to improve the quality of his coffee and he wants to be recognized as a high quality coffee producer.
