The Martínez family was one of the first families to settle in Northern Tolima. Going back three generations, José María Martínez and Ana Rosa Duque (3rd great grandparents to our co-founder Juliana) arrived in Villahermosa around the year 1857, from Caldas and Antioquia.

Other family members from these regions later followed and were dedicated to raising livestock, muleteering, horse breeding. In 1893 her great-great grandparents Idelfonso Martínez and María de Jesús Gómez began growing Arabica coffee in Bruselas and El Venado farms with the Bourbon and Maragogipe plant varieties.

In 1898, Juliana’s great-grandparents Arnulfo and Saturia Martínez then began cultivating the Caturra coffee variety on Bruselas farm, which was propagated and grown on other farms they owned. Since then, planting renewals have been carried out with seeds descended from Bruselas, making the Caturra trees we have today a preservation of our ancestral seeds.

This coffee tradition was preserved by her grandparents Fabio Martínez and Beatriz Sánchez who continued to grow coffee despite the economic difficulties of the coffee market during that time.

In 2018, Juliana’s parents Fabiola Catalina Martínez and Roberto Varela, took over Bruselas farm with a mission to preserve this family tradition and rescue the almost extinct Caturra coffee on the property. In six years, they have managed to transform the land into an OMEC protected nature reserve, focusing on agroforestry coffee farming methods. With this transformation also came a name change; Finca Bruselas is now Finca Manantial de la Luna, the home of our delicious signature coffees.

Fast forward to today, we, Juliana and Julien have embarked on a mission to bring this long-standing family tradition to Canada. We launched Café Mosa, our name taking inspiration from the “pueblo” where it all started, Villahermosa. We want to make a difference in the lives of small producers and be the bridge between you and our family.

Bienvenidos!