Peruvian Coffee

Peruvian Coffee: A Hidden Gem

Peru is a land of natural beauty, with stunning mountains, lush rainforests, ancient ruins and home to some of the world's best coffee.

Peruvian coffee is grown in a variety of altitudes, from the Amazon rainforest to the Andes mountains. This variety of altitudes gives Peruvian coffee a wide range of flavors, from light and fruity to dark and chocolatey.

Peruvian coffee is also known for its high quality. The coffee beans are carefully cultivated and processed, resulting in a smooth, flavorful cup of coffee.

In recent years, Peruvian coffee has been gaining international recognition. In 2019, Peru was named the "Best Coffee Producing Country in the World" by the Specialty Coffee Association of America.

If you're looking for a delicious and unique cup of coffee, look for Peruvian coffee. You won't be disappointed.

Here are some of the reasons why Peruvian coffee is so special:

• Variety of flavors: Peruvian coffee beans can be grown at a variety of altitudes, which gives them a wide range of flavors. You can find Peruvian coffees that are light and fruity, dark and chocolatey, or anything in between.
• High quality: Peruvian coffee beans are carefully cultivated and processed, resulting in a smooth, flavorful cup of coffee.
• Sustainable practices: Many Peruvian coffee farmers are committed to sustainable practices, which means that they are protecting the environment and the coffee industry for future generations.
• Fair Trade: Many Peruvian coffee farmers are certified fair trade, which means that they are paid a fair price for their coffee beans. This helps to ensure that farmers can make a living from coffee farming and that they are not exploited.

If you're looking for a delicious, high-quality, and sustainable cup of coffee, look for Peruvian coffee. You won't be disappointed.

History of Peru's Coffee Farms:

Peru's coffee farms and coffee bean production started in the 1700s. While coffee trees grew well and quickly thanks to the vast microclimates that Peru enjoys, the beautiful coffee beans that coffee farmers harvested were often was kept as a domestic product versus being an export.

In the early 1900s, European investment aided in the country’s infrastructure to make Peruvian coffee an export. Coffee soon became over half of Peru’s export, and today, Peru is the 10^th largest coffee producing country and 5^th largest Arabica coffee producer in the world.

Now, there are over 120,000 farmers cultivating Peruvian Coffeeon the slopes of an enormous area of the towering Andes Mountain Range covering nearly 20 degrees of latitude. It is important to remember that most of the coffee farmers producing coffee have minimal access to technical assistance and without much financial incentive to invest in quality, yet the soil found in this climate means Peruvian coffees have a nuanced sweetness comparative to sugarcane.

Peru Women Coffee Farmers

The Importance of Fair Trade Coffee and Co-Op:

Fair Trade is an institutional arrangement that was created to aid producers in developing countries to achieve better trading conditions on the global market. Fair Trade advocates the payment of higher prices to exporters, is focused on particular commodities such as handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, wine, sugar, fresh fruit, chocolate, flowers, and gold.

Coffee Co-ops in Peru:

Some of the Peru coffee farmers are part of co-ops. Growing coffee is hard work, and most coffee farmers need to do the growing, picking, washing, and prep work by hand without the aid of technology.

The Cenfrocafe Co-op:

Cenfrocafe Co-op was founded in 1999 the co-op consisted of 220 small-scale coffee farmers. Today, the co-op serves more than 2,000 farmer members spanning across twelve districts within the lush Cajamarca region. Cenfrocafe Co-op helps with technical assistance, quality control workshops, as well as economic and leadership training for young people in rural communities. The financial team of Cenfrocafe Co-op helps provides short-term credit for farmers to cover the front-end costs of the harvest and materials that are needed in coffee production.

The Peru La Florida Co-Op:

The Peru La Florida Co-op is a group of 50 small-scale coffee farmers from Peru Chanchamayo region came together in 1966 to form the Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera La Florida (CAC La Florida) in order to bypass local intermediaries. Since starting in 1966, the co-op now includes up to 1,200 members at its peak.

Like Cenfrocafe Co-op, they offer education programs that provide training for members, workshops on coffee production and management sessions for community youth. They have been able to include access to new libraries, school gardens, and uniforms for members as well. 

CAC La Florida believes their children are the future of the cooperative and must, therefore, provide support in educating strong leaders capable of management roles.

Peruvian Single Origin Coffee

While high-quality Arabica coffee from Peru may be blended into other Latin American blends or Coffee blends, Peruvian Coffee shines beautifully as a single-origin coffee.  Served as a drip coffee, pour-over coffee or French Press coffee, it has a medium body that tickles the tongue with a tangy fruit finish. 

Our Weaver’s Peruvian Coffee is 100% Fair Trade Certified. It is as lively as the country itself and has been hand-crafted to realize its complete flavor potential.  Step into exquisiteness with your first sip of our Peruvian Coffee.

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