This coffee is produced by Campesinos Ecológicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH), a fair-trade and organiccertified coop located within the buffer zone of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve. Located in the highlands of the Sierra Madrede Chiapas, El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve is one of the world’s most diverse forest reserves. This reserve containsMesoamerica’s largest continuous cloud forest, and it serves as a refuge to thousands of plant and animal species.
El Triunfo is a rare and valuable sanctuary requiring continued protection, and CESMACH ensures this protection throughvarious sustainable practices. All coffee is shade grown, and biological corridors are created in order to facilitate bird andanimal migration. In addition, Cafe Imports pays a 20 cent premium for each pound of this coffee that is to be used for the continued maintenance of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve.
We have a new coffee from Peru to offer! This is a different Peru than the Cuzco we have and this coffee is from the Ayacucho Apurimac River Valley and is from the CACVRA co-op.
CACVRA, or Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Valle Rio Apurimac was established in 1969 as a means of uniting cocoa and coffee growers in the Apurimac River Valley. This picturesque river valley unites the two growing regions of Ayacucho and Cuzco. The town of San Francisco lies directly on the Apurimac River and spans a bridge connecting the two regions. San Francisco also is the home of CACVRA’s main offices, cocoa receiving warehouse, and coffee cupping facility.
From the Cafe Imports general information page about Peru:
Peru
Peruvian coffees are grown very high in the Andes Mountains. This exceptional altitude creates a coffee with bright effervescent snap, gentle sweetness, and nice medium body. Peru is an excellent origin for organic coffees, due to the hard work of a few exporters/importers in getting the farms and the mills up to organic standards.
Peruvian coffees are not as well known in the coffee world as are their other South American neighbors, but I believe this is simply a function of advertising. Brazil is the number-one producer of arabica coffee, and Colombia is number two. Also Brazil and Colombia have two large coffee organizations “hawking their wares,” which Peru has not in the past. What’s all this mean? Just that you should try coffee from Peru, because there are some nice ones out there, but you may just have not heard of them. They need a better PR department!
Here is the page from our retail stores fresh roasted Earth Friendly Coffee Section!
We are trying to carry more earth friendly coffees each time we pick up coffee!
1 Pound Earth Friendly Fresh Roasted Coffee
1 pound bags of Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans
Specialty Grade Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans
Roasted in small batches in a Diedrich IR-3 Roaster
We are currently roasting 3 times a week. Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesdays.
Buy 2 pounds from this section and recieve an additional FREE half pound!
A combination of any 2 coffees or 2 pounds of the same coffee. The free half pound is chosen randomly from the days roasting schedule. This will allow you to try some different coffees that you may not have had before!
