Coffee was already part of the family before it became the company.

This story starts with two families and one shared love for the land. Daniela's great-great-grandfather, a blacksmith, was the first in the family to work coffee. Her grandmother came from a coffee-growing family of her own. When those two threads met, they became the foundation of everything that followed - a small farm called Villanueva, in Salgar, Antioquia, that her grandfather spent years building into full ownership, one purchased share at a time.

Daniela's father never wanted anything to do with the countryside. He built his career elsewhere - hardware stores, pharmacies, businesses of every kind - until, on an ordinary visit to see his own father, he was offered the chance to buy a coffee farm neither of them had really planned for. “I don't know coffee,” he said, “but you do.” That one impulsive decision, made with more conviction than certainty, became the beginning of a legacy.

Over the following two decades, that single bet grew into one of the country's largest coffee-growing operations - recognized by the President of Colombia in 2017 as “Heroes of Coffee Growing,” for a business built on care: fair labor conditions, meticulous management, and some of the earliest technology adoption in the region's coffee fields.

Daniela stepped into that world at nineteen, inside the family business, and found her own calling - first as a cupper, then as the person who understood how far a farm's potential could go through processing alone. That's where her path into specialty coffee and international trade began, eventually running an import company of her own in the United States.

The family farms were eventually sold, at the right time and on the right terms. Life took Daniela elsewhere for a while - including years at a company she deeply respects. But the pull to keep working the land, and to keep building something that honors the coffee-growing families who came before her, never really left. Specialty Coffee Source is that return: a company built to make business easier for everyone at the table - built by someone who has done the work with her own hands, and who knows exactly what both a grower and a roaster need to trust the person in between.