Bella Elizabeth

The farm was acquired by Mr. Florencio Modesto Argueta Villatoro on March 23, 1954, from the municipality of San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango, his first plantations were of varieties such as typica, bourbon and Maragogipe, they were planted with distances of 2 meters between bush and 2 meters between street, when Don Modesto died in 1978, the second generation of the family took charge of managing the Argueta farm, Don Álvaro Rene, Erwin Modesto and Magnolia Argueta Figueroa; when the farm was divided in the year 2000, Erwin Modesto Argueta Figueroa, decided to incorporate new varieties of coffee by planting, caturra, catuai and green pache; when Erwin Modesto died in 2004, the farm passed into the hands of his son and third generation of coffee growers Erwin Humberto Argueta Herrera, who gave it the name of Bella Elizabeth in honor of his daughter Ana Elízabeth.

In 2015 after many setbacks and given the difficulty presented by coffee rust, there is a need to look for new opportunities to sell coffee with the theme of quality, a new wave of coffee comes to us and we decided to participate in the regional coffee competition promoted by Anacafé, obtaining the 4th place.

Taking into account our good participation in the regional competition of Anacafé, we decided to participate in 2016 in the Cup of Excellence auction, in which we reached the 6th. A place positioning ourselves among the best coffees in Guatemala, the farm still preserves traditional varieties such as bourbon, typica and caturra.

Again, in 2017, we participated in the Cup of Excellence, obtaining the 26th place.

All this new wave of coffee has led us to implement batches of new coffee varieties that are under development such as Villa Sarchi, gesha, pacamara.

For the year 2021 we have participated again in the Highland Huehue regional coffee competition obtaining the 2nd place.

We also participated in the first edition of the One of a Kind Guatemala competition occupying the 18th position.

The pandemic brought many challenges for the operation of the farm, and migration has affected us a lot.

As part of the strategies to face the current challenges, we have started the planting of new varieties of coffee with the challenge of maintaining quality and adapting new planting distances to semi-technify the work.

We are also part of the National Coffee Association (Anacafe) SUSTAINABLE PROFITABILITY program that seeks to enable coffee farms to withstand moments of crisis by seeing the farm as a coffee company.