Chapada Diamantina is grown in the Bahia state in northeast Brazil, and the coffee is Certified Organic - in fact it is is Demeter Biodynamic certified. What distinguishes a Demeter certified Biodynamic® farm from a certified organic farm is that, in its entirety, a Demeter Biodynamic farm is managed as a living organism. This is the fundamental principal of the Biodynamic farming method. The Chapada Diamantina region is the largest biodynamic coffee producing region in Brazil with over 600 workers and their families involved in this form of agriculture.

Chapada Diamantina is "dry Procceced", popularly known as “pulped natural”. With this style of processing, the ripe harvested beans are passed through a mechanical device which removes the cherry and most of the mucilage as well. The coffee is then dried for 7 to 12 days on raised mesh bottomed “African” beds. The farm is a fascinating mix of shade and fruit trees, coffee, and harvestable timber on fairly steep hillsides. While the entire farm encompasses over 300 hectares, only 43 are under coffee cultivation.

The pulped natural method as practiced at Chapada Diamantina is rare in that little to no water is used. This leaves more residual mucilage or “honey” on the beans than normally occurs with this processing style. In fact, the dried pergamino still has a sticky consistency, and smells like maple, honey, and tropical fruit. These same flavors stay with the coffee after processing and roasting, resulting in one of the most unique coffees from Brazil I have ever tasted. This coffee works very well for espresso, it produces a huge head of soft velvet crema.

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