About Us
We are coffee producers with over than 100 years of experience in our craft.
We are coffee producers with over than 100 years of experience in our craft. Our coffee is recognized worldwide because of our best practices, quality in our processes, traceability (from seed-tree-mill-port), and innovation in the coffee industry.
Through hard work, cooperation and transparency we assure our commitment to quality. We have full traceability when it comes to all stages our coffee is in including:
- Greenhouses
- Planting
- Growth and maintenance
- Harvest
- Milling
- Storage
- Delivery
All of this work would be impossible without our team in the K-Fe Farms. By supporting our people in terms of living arrangements, education and access to health clinics; as well as technologies that make their work less strenuous.
We work hard all year, operating under the highest quality and ethical standards. We continue to experiment with new practices and methods in order to continue improving and building our worldwide recognition because of the quality we present.
We partner with others who are as passionate for coffee as we are. All of these are key aspects to deliver a world class coffee that speak to our commitment to quality.
COffee & People
Florence Mathies
In 2009, Florence Mathies Hill, a passionate and dedicated woman, decided to continue with her family legacy of coffee production in El Salvador, making her a fourth generation coffee farmer. By establishing more efficient processes and innovating where opportunity presents itself, Florence has always worked towards having the best operation possible in order to benefit both the quality of K-Fe’s coffee as well as the people working there.
Florence has always cared for the people around her, helping the communities around K-FÉ’s farms. She has always showed commitment to our workers’ nutrition, health and education.
We believe that specialty coffee involves other aspects that are also very important, like the well-being of our communities.
Our Pioneer: James Hill
James Hill was born in England and arrived in El Salvador in the 19th century. From a very young age he realized that by introducing new techniques to the cultivation and processing of coffee, he could export coffee beans that met the highest international standards.
He began exporting coffee on his own account at the end of the 19th century and, shortly after, won a silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition in New York, 1901.
James Hill founded Las Tres Puertas in 1896, in Santa Ana town, located close Santa Ana’s Volcano whose slopes produce coffee beans of the highest quality. His vision in promoting new ideas and methods to coffee production in our country included the introduction of the Bourbon variety of Arabica Coffee.
JHill & Company
JHill & Co. (Las Tres Puertas) was established in 1896. J. Hill is the family owned coffee mill that processes the coffee coming from K-FE’s farms. All of the processes can be tailored to the customer’s liking; from drying in patios to drying in beds, to Honey, Washed, Natural, Burundi and other fermentations depending on what the buyer wished to obtain.
Learn more about J Hill:
jhillcoffee.com
