Ave Maria Estate

Ave Maria Estate is located near the Halebelur Post. It’s a family-run sort of place, deep in the heart of the coffee growing region. We don't have a storefront with big signs or anything. It’s mostly just the estate and the work that goes into it. The road to the post office is narrow and bumpy. We see the mail carrier every day and that’s about the most excitement we get. Life here revolves around the seasons. When it’s harvest time, everyone is busy from dawn until way past dark. When it’s the monsoon, we spend a lot of time indoors fixing things and waiting for the rain to stop. The house has been here for a long time and it shows its age in the creaky floorboards and the way the roof leaks a bit during the heavy storms. We don't mind. It’s home. We grow our coffee and look after the land. It’s a lot of manual labor, getting your hands dirty every single day. We don't really think of ourselves as a business in the corporate sense. We’re just people living on the land and making a living from what we grow. It’s a quiet existence. We know our neighbors and we help each other out. That’s just how things are done here in Halebelur. The days are long, but there is a certain rhythm to the work that keeps us all going year after year.