Sítio Santa Rita

Owner:  Túlio Divino Marcilio

Municipality: Inconfidentes  

State: Minas Gerais

Variety:  Mundo Novo

Altitude: 1.030 masl

 

Túlio was born on the Santa Rita estate, located in the municipality of Inconfidentes – MG. His father was already a rural producer cultivating coffee. As soon as he could, Túlio began helping his father farm the 4 thousand coffee plants they had at that time. Over time, they planted more coffee plants. Túlio got married and continued to live on the Santa Rita estate. By the time his son Tiago was born, in 1989, they had 10 thousand coffee plants. Following in his father's footsteps, Tiago also started helping in the coffee plantation.

In 2020 they purchased the São Bento estate, which had only pasture. Father and son prepared the soil and planted more coffee. Now they total of 15 thousand coffee trees.