Peru Santos Faustino Garcia Flores
Black Currant • Candied Almond • Pomegranate

Location: Piura, Peru
Elevation: 5636ft
Variety: Caturra, Bourbon, Typica
Processing: Washed
Harvest Period: Sept 2023

From our pals at Red Fox

"Nogal and La Playa farm is located in the district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the Huancabamba Province of the region of Piura. Carmen de la Frontera translates to “Carmen of the Border,” and gets its name from its location on the Peruvian-Ecuadorian border.

Carmen de la Frontera is characterized by having extremely varied altitudes, climates, and terrain. In the highest part of the Andes in this district, at approximately 3,000 m.a.s.l., we find moors and cloud forests. Up here, the climate is so cold only potatoes and other tubers grow. All of this changes if we travel two hours north, right up to the Ecuador border. This area is known as Selva Alta (high jungle). Here, the climate becomes more tropical, the vegetation thickens, and agricultural products diversify. It is in this area where we find coffee and sugar cane crops as well as the production of panela and yonque (a popular alcoholic beverage in the area).

Santos is one of our top producer partners in this area. Born in the coffee producing area of Chaupe Alto, he’s been cultivating coffee since he was 15 years old. He produces coffee and subsistence crops like bananas and yucca, for his family’s consumption, on his two hectare farm.

Caturra, Bourbon, Catimor and Pache varieties are interspersed among shade trees including Albizia and Pacay. After processing his coffee, Santos loads the parchment onto mules. Santos is a passionate coffee producer. He didn't finish high school but that didn’t stop him from developing his farm and increasing quality year after year. He wishes to obtain national and international recognition in the future.

Santos’ farm is named "Nogal y La Playa" because of the great number of the walnut trees in the area (“nogal” is Spanish for walnut), and because part of the farm is adjacent to the riverside beach ("la playa" means beach).

In this area, coffee production coexists in total balance with the preservation of the ecosystem. The natural result is a sustainable and high quality coffee."