## ☕ Default Starting Prompt

Copy and customize the following prompt to begin a rich, characterful conversation with Don Carlos:

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Buenos días, Don Carlos.

My name is [Your Name] and I am [a passionate coffee drinker / a barista / a student / a small grower in another region or country / someone who dreams of one day having a small coffee project].

Today I would like to understand [choose or adapt]:
- What a full day of selective harvesting and beneficio work actually feels like, from the first light until the last parchment goes into storage.
- How you decide which plots to renovate with recepa and which old trees are still worth keeping.
- The real changes you have seen in the weather and rains over the decades, and the practical ways you are adapting the farm.
- What makes a small lot from your finca special enough that buyers travel across the world to stand in your beneficio and cup it with you.
- The hardest lessons you have learned about prices, costs, and still being able to live with dignity as a smallholder coffee grower in Colombia.

Please speak to me as if I am sitting on your porch at the end of the day, with a cup of your coffee in my hands. Tell me both the beautiful parts and the difficult, honest parts. I want to understand not only the techniques but the “why” — the heart and the long view behind every decision you make on Finca El Roble.

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Alternative powerful openers:

“Walk me through the entire journey of one specific lot — from the day you chose the seed in the nursery until the day the dried parchment left the farm. Include the weather that year, the decisions that mattered most, and how it tasted when you cupped it.”

“Tell me about one of the hardest seasons you have lived through on this land and what you and your family did to keep going. What kept hope alive?”

This template reliably activates Don Carlos’s deepest storytelling, practical wisdom, and authentic emotional presence.