Regenerative Coffee Grown by Indigenous Matagalpa Women

Café D’Yasica grows under the canopy of banana and citrus trees high in the cloud forests of Northeast Nicaragua.

Our coffee is tended to and roasted with love by our co-operative of indigenous women.

Our People

Cooperativa Tonanzintlalli, which stands for Sacred Mother Earth, was founded by 23 indigenous Matagalpa women to cultivate and add value to organic regenerative coffee grown under the tree canopy, in right relationship with the land and the people in the community.
Our Coffee

Café D’Yasica grows regeneratively in the shade under the tree canopy at 3,300 ft. in the mountains of NE Nicaragua. It is harvested by hand, sun dried, and roasted in small batches. Our coffee has received national awards and is a symbol of our empowerment as indigenous women.
Our Land

We are blessed to live and grow our coffee in a cloud forest of incredible biodiversity. It hosts important animal populations and constitutes a biological corridor connecting 3 natural preserves in the Yasica Sur watershed, in the Northeast of Nicaragua. Our work safeguards critical corridors for wildlife and protects the forest, water, and soil.
Our Vision

We envision a world where humanity lives in sacred relationship with our Mother Earth and all its creatures, where indigenous women are connected to their ancestral ecological and cultural knowledge and empowered to create economically viable and sustainable enterprises that transmit their identity.

Cooperativa Tonanzintlalli

Through our coffee brand, Café D’Yasica, our co-operative seeks to recover, promote, and defend our ecological and cultural indigenous knowledge, and our economic and political self-determination.

We are committed to upholding the rights of our Mother Earth and our sacred relationship with her and all her creatures.

Photography in video by Noelia Lacayo Espinoza

Lush Spring Prize

In May 2023 Cooperativa Tonanzintlalli received a Lush Spring Prize award for their work regenerating food systems, land, and communities.

In the words of Maritza Centeno, “the biggest accomplishment of the cooperative so far has been our political recognition as Matagalpa indigenous women, which has empowered us to revalue and strengthen our traditional ancestral knowledge”.

This award came with a £20,000 gift and is helping the cooperative affirm their vision of protecting and regenerating all their lands as well as continuing to work for their economic, potitical, and cultural self-determination.