141 smallholder farmers, 7 indigenous Yanesha villages, Oxapampa, Peru
Sonnental grows in the mountain rainforest of Villa Rica in the Oxapampa province, grown by members of the indigenous Yanesha community. The Yanesha are among the oldest indigenous peoples of Peru.
In the cooperative CEPRO Yanesha 141 coffee farmers from seven villages pool their harvests, 43 of them women. Together they achieve volumes and quality standards that individual families could not assert on the world market. The cooperative is organic and Fairtrade certified and registered under FLO-ID 34607.
The coffee gardens lie at 1,200 to 1,800 meters, in the middle of the UNESCO Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha Biosphere Reserve. The reserve protects some of Central Peru's last largely undisturbed ecosystems.
Each cherry is hand selected and processed using the washed method. This step is the reason for the clarity that Sonnental shows in the cup.
