A natural & gentle leader, his communication style combines his mother's wit with an awareness for the person next him. we thrive where the tradition he inherited meets a kind and gentle heart...that is the legacy of his hands.

Luiyi, although the youngest, was the pioneer we didn’t know we needed, because If it wasn’t for him we may have never endeavored to share our land or our way of life with the world in the first place.

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Luiyi

Meet

"The Baby Brother"

I remember when I first noticed Luiyi disappearing beyond the low-hanging leaves of the plantain trees that stood guard behind our houses. It wasn’t as if he never entered El Conuco, he would help Cabito as much as any of the brothers and yet it was somehow different; more frequent perhaps, and he looked more determined than his usual trips to hunt for his father's "treasure" or to complete the chores expected of him on occasion. Alex would join him every hour he wasn't working somewhere else, but if i am not mistaken, it was Luiyi that first had the courage to try and grow something he intended to sell back behind El Conuco.

Before there was a grand plan, or a tiller, it was with pickaxe in hand, some lettuce seeds, and hope that there might be an answer here in this soil, that he stepped into the shoes of his father in a way he never had before; and those shoes carried him down a path none of us could have guessed, at the time, would lead to where we are now; and in spite of not knowing exactly where this could go slowly but surely we each followed, adding what only each of us could to a team that we weren’t exactly trying to form.

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What started out as leadership became partnership, but without his willingness to start, lead and face back breaking work with a joke and a smile we may have never made it to where we are today. His Leadership is courage and magnetism.