PERU - Cafe De Mujer - Organic

Roast: Medium  Tastes: Green Apple, Lime, Milk Chocolate Location: Rodríguez de Mendoza, Amazonas, Peru Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Pache and Typica Process: Fully washed, sun dried Elevation: 1500-1800 masl Coffee Background: For the past five years, Asociación de Productores Cafetaleros de la Cuenca del Rio Marañón (APROCCURMA) has been working directly with 124 women producers to establish coffee production from farms owned and managed by women. A significant number of women in the northern highlands of the Rodríguez de Mendoza province rely on coffee income to support their families. They use organic practices to manage just a few acres of land intercropped with shade trees, bananas, corn, and beans. After carefully harvesting and sorting cherries, depulping, fermenting, washing, and drying is all done at the farm with micro-mills. The cooperative carries out activities that often go unnoticed but are crucial for producers who have small farms. Investments for basic infrast