CESMACH is made up of various smallholder members which allows the farmers to pool resources.  The farms of CESMACH are located in the buffer zone of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, which is in the highlands of the Sierra Madre, it is one of the most diverse forest reserve areas in the world and contains Mesoamerica’s largest cloud forest.  All of the coffee produced here is shade-grown and is both Fair Trade and Organic-certified coffee.