• Who are we?

We are Joe Coppick, (american pilot, aerial firefighter, and coffee roaster) and Juliana Turchetti, (brazilian-italian aviatrix, cropduster, ferry pilot, and coffee importer). 

Aviation brought us together and between flights we found time to get married, nourish our love for antique architecture and drink a lot of coffee. 

Our coffee passion turned into a business and we take pride on selling a great product that is also part of the Brazilian and Italian culture, both greatly appreciated in the USA.

• A little bit about Brazil cerrado area.

The Cerrado  is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais and the Federal District. The main habitat types of the Cerrado consist of forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The second largest of Brazil’s major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest, the Cerrado accounts for a full 21% of the country’s land area (extending marginally into Paraguay and Bolivia).

 I, Juliana, was born in this beautiful exotic area, more precisely in the Minas Gerais state.

Traveling through the west side of the state, you can see the vast coffee crops that grow in the high altitudes that reach 3,300 ft.

We only import coffee from this area, since it’s known to the best coffee in Brazil and among the best in the world. We want to offer you not just a product, but a tasteful experience that will take you to the beautiful hills of Minas Gerais!

• Where are we now?

We live in Havana, Illinois state. Crop dusting and aerial firefighting are very dinamic activities and that gave us the opportunity to travel to different places in North, Central and South America. During our flying season in 2019 we came to Havana to work and fell in love with the area. We bought a 1909 house, started to restore it and we decided to call it our nest.

Havana is a little historical town, located in a beautiful area by the Illinois River.

To promote our coffee, we first joined the Havana Farmers Market and that gave us the opportunity to get a sense of how receptive people would be to our product. We were very happy to learn that American people really enjoy Brazilian coffee!

From a small tent at the Farmers Market, to on line sales we’ve been finding ourselves in an incredible journey. 

The cultural exchanging, the opportunity to know and talk with different people and the possibility of dreaming higher has been an incredible time for both of us.