Owned by the Peixoto family, Sítio Santo Antônio boasts 74,000 coffee trees stretched over 21 hectares in southern Brazil. The Peixoto's have won local coffee competitions since 2008 and in 2020, they became well-known globally as one of the first Black Brazilian families to export their coffee into the international specialty market under their own name and recognition.

The Peixoto family is featured in The Triumph, a book by Phyllis Johnson about Black Brazilians in coffee. Learn more and grab a copy here!

One of the few Black Brazilian landowners in the Campo das Vertentes region of southern Minas Gerais, the Peixoto's became landowners in 1999. At that time, the six Peixoto brothers pooled their resources and moved from sharecropping the land they worked to ownership, purchasing 44 hectares of land and planting 27,000 coffee trees. They worked together to improve the land, paving the drying patio, building a farmhouse and a storage facility.

Currently, they own 74,000 coffee trees and gather up to 15 family members to work together during harvest season, continuing their tradition of communal work. Neide Peixoto (pictured right) in particular has been leading her family's efforts to improve the quality of their coffee farm. She has been attending training programs and participating in local quality competitions to improve their coffee.

Neide is a risk-taking entrepreneur who started out as a domestic worker and later opened a successful beauty salon before deciding to focus entirely on the coffee farm. She became a member of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance and has been devoting all her effort to the farm since 2017. The farm has won local quality contests since 2008, and Neide sees its potential for producing high-quality coffee.

The Peixoto family also has their own Instagram! Follow along here: @sitiosantantoniofamiliapeixoto