Small batch coffee producers of shade-grown Benguet Arabica in the Cordillera range of mountains in the Philippines. Owned by Agnep Agri-Products Corp.
We’ve got some big news that’ll make shopping with Agnep Coffee Farm online feel even easier. We’re thrilled to share that we’ve been approved for the DTI E-Commerce Philippine Trustmark — yes, the one from the Department of Trade and Industry!
Agnep Coffee Farm is still a start-up, built around a simple goal: bring you authentic, premium Philippine coffee, fresh from the farm. We also know ordering from a brand-new shop can feel a little risky. Totally fair. We’ve felt that, too and we’ve been working from day one to remove that hesitation.
Hidden among the lush forests of Benguet province lies a treasure trove of wild edible fruits, deeply woven into the fabric of local culture and cuisine. Grown under kalasan and other shade trees, these fruits thrive alongside our shade-grown coffee, enriching the region’s biodiversity. An ethnobotanical survey by Racquel Tan Chua-Barcelo identified 36 species spread across 13 municipalities. With the help of our farmers, we identified 15 of the 36 wild fruits, indicated in bold letters as follows:
We’re celebrating seven years of Agnep Heritage Coffee! It feels like just yesterday we were publishing our first blog post, connecting with our early supporters, and sharing our passion for sustainable coffee. In our first post, we wrote:
This will be a long journey. I know it will take three to five years to harvest the Arabica beans and meanwhile, our family will need to study more about coffee farming, from bean to brew and everything in between. Our learning curve is steep.
Note: Our award-winning coffee is now available for sale. Click our order form to buy our coffee.
We, at Agnep Heritage Farms can proudly say we grow award winning coffee. Michael Harris Conlin relayed the good news that the washed reds (from our first harvest ) used for the 2022 Global Coffee Championship, Signature Coffee Award: Brewing won a Bronze. The competition was held in Kintex, Korea and was determined by panel of 12 judges.
We are grateful to the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Regional Field Office of the Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-RFO CAR) through the Regional High Value Crop Development Program (HVCDP) Coordinator Joan Dimas-Bacbac for the coffee seedlings they provided for us since we started in 2018.
The first question that hit my mind in January 2018 was how do I plant coffee? My husband and I met up with Professor Val Macanes on March . Macanes gave useful tips such as that the “Base of fertilization is very important. At least 5 kilos of chicken manure per hole (1,200 per hectare). Digging should be half a meter by half a meter.” He even gave us a production guidebook, but I wanted more context on the steps.
What helped me is this “Production Guide for Arabica Coffee” from Bote Central. You can download it here. I liked that it had a lot of illustrations, which gave me a head start. The guide also helped me teach the coffee farmers by showing the illustrations. It would be on July 2018 when I would get a formal training from the Benguet State University (BSU). The training workshop was called “Pre-production management, Quality Enhancement of Coffee Product from Seed to Cup.”
Let me show you what we did. On the slopes of the family ancestral land , lies a dense, oak-dominated cloud forest (or kalasan) together with the Benguet Pine trees.
Clearing. the land
We had to clear the land first so we could plant in between the trees.
