Alma's story began over five generations ago in the remote mountains of Honduras where Leticia, a fifth-generation coffee farmer, was (quite literally) born to be in the coffee industry. Her father and co-founder of Alma, Al Lopez, was born and raised in coffee farms in Honduras before immigrating to the United States; Growing up, Al kept the family coffee farming legacy alive by taking Leticia every year to visit the family coffee farms in Copan, Honduras!

In 2018, Leticia and Harry Hutchins founded Alma Coffee with the idea of bringing Direct Trade coffee's positive impact on the coffee industry to light while also striving to make ethically sourced farm-to-cup coffee accessible to everyone. We founded Alma on the same 3 key pillars in which our family coffee farms were founded upon: improving lives, sustainable practices, and extraordinary coffee.