Riolindo Coffee Farm

05/08/2026

Alfredo Luis Rodriguez accomplished more than a lot yesterday. After finding his lost cattle, he and his wife hiked from Piñan almost to Apuela for a business meeting and then hiked back to the Laguna de Piñan (about 20 km) and then picked about a gallon and a half of huckleberries near that lake. Then he hiked 12 more kilometers down to El Rosario carrying large bags of huckleberries in both hands while wearing a big backpack. Then he got on the back of a motorcycle for another half hour at least carrying those berries. He entered our farm saying sweetly "Te traje a mortiños" I brought you huckleberries. He is wonderful.

(Maybe we'll make some frozen huckleberry lime daiquiris again!)

04/08/2026

Our rooftop has become a stunning and tranquil location for those who practice yoga. We had a couple here from Hawaii who practiced yoga everyday for almost two weeks. At the same time, a yoga community came traveling through and stayed two nights.

30/07/2026

Riolindo Staff will be selling coffee at the Cotacachi Farmer's Market, this coming Thursday, August 6th 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

● Red Typica Medium or Dark, Ground or Whole Bean. $10
● Gesha Medium Ground or Whole Bean $10
● Yellow Bourbon Ground or Whole Bean. $10

450 gram bags

Some recent hotel guests started ordering bags of our soft cinnamon rolls. The best way for us to transport those is to bring them frozen in a cooler that you can store in your freezer and pop into the microwave in the morning and cover with our cream cheese frosting. These taste best when served with steamy Riolindo coffee, of course. Those are $4 for a bag of six big cinnamon rolls

Please message me if you want coffee or rolls reserved. We will have some extra at the market but it's always good to reserve coffee ahead of time.

Our hotel has been fairly busy. Please make sure to make your reservations in advance if you plan to visit.
593 96 917 8932 is my WhatsApp

We now have an Intag bus that passes right by our farm at 6:00 a.m. and gets us to Cotacachi by 9:00 a.m.! It leaves Cotacachi at 11:30 a.m. and returns to our farm.

23/07/2026

We are in the process of getting our coffee farm certified as bird friendly. We are already organic so it will be a fairly smooth process.

When you drink Bird Friendly® certified coffee, you brew a more bio...

15/07/2026

29/06/2026

A few fun pictures of the Babe Escape! The Riolindo staff really enjoyed these fun and adventurous women and they were so sad to see them go. We also learned a lot about vegan cuisine and ground chia is my new best friend in the kitchen.

19/06/2026

We are busy at Riolindo Coffee Farm!

COFFEE:
Emerson Rodriguez is supervising coffee harvest and those coffee cherries are ripening very fast. There is Gesha in the drying house but it's not dry enough to roast just yet. However we have about 90 lb of the red tipica that we're going to roast this weekend. We will be selling Red Typica varieties at the Farmer's Market on July 3, less than 2 weeks from now. We know that some of you have been waiting for the Gesha and we will contact you as soon as it is ready. We also have some of our Red Typica coffee for sale at the Coo Coo's Nest.

BABE ESCAPE:
This morning our cooks enjoyed breakfast with our coffee harvesters and then things went CRAZY in the kitchen as the amazing cooks spent the morning preparing tasty vegan dishes for harvesters to try for lunch. Frozen fruit smoothies, Papavegas, Vegan Buritoes, and Mango Curry over balsamic rice. They were practicing for the retreat this coming week! The aromas rising from the kitchen were amazing.
We still have two spots available for those women wanting to attend the BABE ESCAPE this coming Tuesday through Saturday. Contact Janet at 593 96 917 8932.
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12/06/2026

We had a birder here this week who did not take pictures. However she left us a list of what she saw. We haven't compared it yet with our list on our website.

We know there are birders that follow this page and would be interested in her list. I'm attaching a picture of the C**k of the Rock that was taken by Angela Perryman and Doug Edwards a few years ago. We put in a viewpoint in memory of where Doug loved to look for birds. Our recent birder saw a "C**k of the Rock: while sitting at that viewpoint this week so that was cool. I got this list from her penciled notes on paper so I might have spelled some of these wrong:

List:

White capped dipper
Band tailed pigeon
Slate throated redstart
Ecuadorian thrush
Black phoebe
Andean Emerald
Western Emerald
Buff tailed coronet
Rufus tailed hummingbird
Sparkling violetear
Lesser violatear
Tawny bellied hermit
Speckled hummingbird
Booted racket tail
White bellied Woodstar
Blue gray Tanager
Flame rumped tanager
Scrub Tanager
Golden naped Tanager
Golden Tanager
Black capped Tanager
White winged Tanager
Chestnut capped brushing
Squirrel cuckoo
Tropical kingbird
Golden crowned flycatcher
Social flycatcher
Dusky capped flycatcher
Southern Beardless Tyrannalet
Masked trogon
Pale legged hornero was bathing at Doug's viewpoint.
C**k of the Rock
Three striped warblers
Tropical parula
Streak capped treehunter
Rufous collared sparrow
Black vulture
Turkey vulture
House wren
Grey breasted wood wren
Brown capped vireo
Blue winged mountain Tanager
White tipped dove
Great thrush

She left more notes about where she spotted these various birds. Should I add those notes as well?

03/06/2026

Riolindo is harvesting Gesha and Yellow Bourbon varieties today 🩷. This new crop will be roasted in about a month. Emerson and Marilyn thought they shouldn't be in a picture until their clothes were clean. I told them that I couldn't imagine anything more natural for farm harvesters than to show a little dirt, especially when it's dark, rich, organic soil.

Coo Coo's Nest Restaurant, in Cotacachi, will be selling Riolindo coffee beginning tomorrow afternoon.

Random Fact: We have over 2,840 coffee trees now.