Women Behind the Coffee

Timaná, Huila

Southern Colombia

Women-Led Sourcing

Coffee with a traceable story

Single Origin

One region, one coffee story

Fully Washed

Clean, careful processing

Roasted in Calgary

From green coffee to your cup

Great coffee has people behind it.

Urban Calm sources its Colombian coffee through the women’s coffee program connected to ASPROTIMANA in Timaná, Huila. The association works with coffee-growing families across southern Huila and supports coffee quality, technical development, environmental sustainability and stronger participation by women and rural youth.

For us, women-led sourcing is not a badge added at the end of the story. It is part of the origin, the quality and the reason we want customers to know where their coffee comes from.

WOMEN + ORIGIN

The people, place and quality behind the cup.

Urban Calm’s coffee story begins in Timaná, Huila. The women’s coffee program, producer organization and careful work at origin are not side notes. They are part of what makes the coffee worth building a brand around.

TIMANÁ, HUILA

Traceable specialty coffee

Women at the centre of the origin

ASPROTIMANA is an agricultural producers’ association based in Timaná, Huila, supporting coffee-growing families while promoting specialty coffee, sustainability, technical development and participation by women and young people.

The women’s coffee program tied to the lots Urban Calm buys is built around women producers and the work they do across farming, selective harvesting, post-harvest processing and the quality decisions that shape the green coffee before it ever reaches Calgary.

That is why origin belongs in the cup story.

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WHY IT MATTERS

Traceable specialty coffee

Why women-led sourcing matters

Coffee quality and economic opportunity are connected. When producers have access to training, processing knowledge, market information and a stronger role in decision-making, they have more tools to build long-term value from the coffee they grow.

Urban Calm’s role is simple: buy exceptional coffee with a story we can trace, roast it carefully in Calgary and make sure the people and place behind it are visible instead of disappearing behind the final bag.

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ASPROTIMANA

Traceable specialty coffee

ASPROTIMANA: quality, community + continuity

ASPROTIMANA’s work in southern Huila is built around coffee quality and stronger rural communities. Its programs include technical support, commercialization, environmental sustainability and social development.

The association also promotes specialty coffee and greater participation by women and rural youth. For Urban Calm customers, that means the coffee in the bag is connected to a real place, a real producer organization and a quality-focused supply chain rather than an anonymous commodity blend.

Origin: Timaná, Huila, Colombia
Altitude: approximately 1,590–1,750 masl
Varieties: Castillo, Caturra and Colombia
Process: fully washed
Drying: protected solar dryers
Roasting: Calgary, Alberta

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Meet María: a story inspired by the women behind our coffee

María is a composite story inspired by the women producers connected to the Timaná coffee program, not a biography of one specific farmer.

Picture a small coffee farm high in southern Huila. Harvest does not happen all at once. Ripe cherries are picked selectively, coffee is processed close to the farm, and decisions about fermentation, washing and drying affect the quality that eventually reaches a roaster thousands of kilometres away.

For women working inside this system, greater access to training, processing skills and market participation can mean a larger role in the business of coffee, not only the labour behind it. That is the part of the story Urban Calm wants to keep visible.

Every bag begins with people, place and craft long before mushrooms are added.

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