JAS Organic Cochapampa, Peru

[Karuizawa Roastery Organic]
We want to protect the Earth, people, and coffee through organic farming, fair trade, and small things!
Will we be able to drink the delicious coffee we drink every day forever? Organic farming protects the land and people's health, and fair trade and support protects our livelihoods.
Learning about local life and unseen challenges, what each of us can do is very small, but it is important to face them without giving up. Let's think about what we can do now and deliver delicious coffee and smiles to the future.
It contains information about the support provided and voices from the local community. It is a long article, but please take the time to read it.

[About the farm]
This coffee is grown organically at an altitude of 2000m in western Peru, South America, and is characterized by a clean, sweet taste. You can tell it was grown with care. The climate is tropical, and the cold ocean currents make it comfortable all year round. As a land where agriculture can be carried out all year round, it once flourished as the center of the Inca Empire, one of the largest in the world, and people still enjoy its benefits today.
Coffee cultivation and the environment "Cusco" means "navel" in the local Quechua language, and has flourished as a cultural center since it was the capital of the Inca Empire, and is still one of Peru's leading cities today. The Cochapampa region, where the coffee fields are located, is located further inland than the Machu Picchu ruins, in the mountains at an altitude of about 2,000m overlooking the sacred mountain of Mount Salkantay, where descendants of the Inca Empire still produce coffee using sustainable, recycling-based organic farming.

【taste】
This coffee has a slightly orange-like sweet and sour taste and a thick texture. It is city roasted to bring out the well-balanced, fragrant aroma.

Flavors and Characteristics : Pink grapefruit, blood orange, cashew nuts

Roast level : City roast

[About support]
The fields of MICOF, a coffee producers' organization in the Chingwa region of southwestern Rwanda, are located at an altitude of over 1,300m, and their fertile soil and warm climate make them the perfect environment for growing high-quality coffee.
In addition to the volume of production, the quality of coffee is renowned worldwide, and coffee is Rwanda's main export agricultural product, consumed by people all over the world. In 2010, when we first visited Rwanda with coffee producers, construction of a water facility, Rwanda's first fair trade initiative, began in order to rebuild Rwanda, which was then exhausted and devastated by ethnic conflict, through coffee.
In 2012, we carried out an expansion and renovation of Gaboza Primary School in the Chingwa district, and in 2016 we built a home economics classroom at the same school to foster skills that will be useful in daily life, with the aim of establishing sewing, nutrition, and cooking education as basic subjects in the primary education curriculum.

[About the importing organization]
Zensho Fair Trade Department here

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