Four species · One island · 12.58°N 121.51°E
Robusta, Arabica, Excelsa and Liberica, grown by smallholders in Oriental Mindoro and processed with the STACO Cooperative in Roxas. Shade-grown in agroforestry. Graded at origin. Traceable to the farm.
Most origins grow one or two. Mindoro grows all four commercial species, and every one of them is processed in Roxas, including the Excelsa and Liberica most mills turn away.
IllustrationBold and full-bodied, clean rather than harsh when it is processed right. High caffeine, rich chocolate. Twenty-five farms grow it, and it is processed within hours of harvest.
IllustrationGrown at elevation, where the clouds settle by mid-morning. Bright acidity, stone fruit and a clean finish, with a mineral character from Mindoro's volcanic soil.
IllustrationTart, fruity and layered, like dark berries and wine. Almost unknown outside the Philippines, and hard to process well. The Roxas line is built to handle it.
IllustrationHuge cherries and a smoky, haunting cup. Rare in world trade. Ours comes from a single farm in Mansalay, which makes it the smallest lot we carry.
Our coffee grows the way it has for generations: under coconut palms and banana canopy, in mixed agroforestry on smallholder farms. No monoculture and no clearing. The biodiversity is the farm.
Geo-tagged field visits in Bongabong put the farms at 649 to 701 ft, with coffee growing under a mixed shade canopy of coconut, banana and forest trees.
Mindoro's coffee used to leave as dried cherry, shipped to Batangas where middlemen took the margin. In Roxas, all four species are hulled, sorted, graded and batch-coded, from cherry to export-ready green bean.
The farms are near the Mindoro Arawatan project landscape (VCS 6023, listed on Verra's pipeline). Shade-grown coffee earns from the land without clearing it.
The Philippines is one of the world's larger coffee markets and imports most of what it drinks. Buyers looking for traceable Philippine-origin supply have struggled to find it. That is the gap we are building into.
Run with the STACO Cooperative in Roxas. Three buying stations across Oriental Mindoro feed one line that turns cherry into export-ready green coffee.
Three active buying stations. Moisture metered at intake, so farmers are paid on what they deliver.
A solar drying greenhouse keeps lots consistent through the rains.
500 kg an hour of hulling, then colour sorting and size grading to export standard.
Every lot gets a batch code back to the farm, harvest date and barangay.
Your buyers get provenance as a serial number, not a story.
The farms are near the Mindoro Arawatan project landscape (VCS 6023), a restoration project listed on Verra's project pipeline. No carbon credits have been issued; validation by an independent auditor comes next. The coffee is not an offset, and we make no carbon claim for it: shade-grown agroforestry is simply how these farms work.
GCash's GForest program and Wovoka plan to plant more than 1 million native trees and mangroves in Oriental Mindoro and Camarines Norte, 2026 to 2030 (GCash's announcement, 29 Jun 2026). Wovoka Philippines and GForest, the sustainability initiative of GCash, signed a memorandum of agreement in 2026.
Mindoro Coffee lives in Oriental Mindoro. The team maps farms by motorbike, trains machine operators at the facility, and sits with STACO Cooperative leadership to make sure the economics work for every farmer.
Agronomists, field engineers, community development specialists and commercial operators who have built agricultural supply chains across the Philippines, all working on one thing: making Mindoro the best-sourced coffee origin in the country.
A voice call in your browser, in Tagalog, with Sir Joseph's team at the STACO Cooperative in Roxas. Your browser will ask to use the microphone.
Mindoro Restoration Reserve Coffee, 250 g, $18 plus shipping. Pre-order now; it ships once the November 2026 harvest is processed.
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