Sítio São Jorge
Owner: Moisés de Oliveira Simões
Municipality: Ouro Fino
State: Minas Gerais
Variety: Mundo Novo, Yellow Catuaí
Altitude: 890 masl
Moisés was born in 1969 in the city of Ouro Fino, and like his siblings, as soon as he could he started helping his father on the farm. He withstood the losses caused by a major frost, and demonstrated strength and perseverance to rebuild the farm where they were born and raised. When he turned 18, he received a piece of land from his father and began taking care of his own plantation, which at the time consisted of a thousand coffee plants.
He started working on the neighboring farm, but never stopped tending to his own crop. In 2010 he began working as a mason and started to build his own home. Three years later, it was ready and moved from the farm where he had been living to his own land, where he now takes care of 5 thousand coffee plants.