2009 Amazon Coffee stocks in store!
Tasty Ashaninka coffee beans
12 November 2009
Ecotribal coffee from 2009 hrvets now in stock 
The 2009 harvest was selected by Carlos Montenegro (Peruvian Anthropologist and Manager of Ecotribal Peru) in June and July this year. This is our fourt year working directly with SANCORE, an Association of Ashaninka Coffee Producers with around thirty small-producer members. The coffee plants grow in the shade of forest canopy on the upper slopes (800-1200m above sea level) of the Perene Valley in the central Peruivian Amazon region. The beans have been grown to organic standards but the scale of export (2.5 tons this year) is still too small to cover the costs of the organic certification process. We are, however, working closely on this and Fair Trade certification with SANCORE. The purchase price paid directly to the coffee producers by Ecotribal was above market and Fair Trade prices. We have a long term working relationship and continue to arrange technical workshops in the field and assist with study visits to best practice examples in Peru. For optimum quality, the bulk of our coffee beans are roasted in bulk by Union Coffee Roasters www.unionroasted.com. To add variety, the rest is roasted to order, including speciality dark (espresso style) roasts, on a cottage scale in Wales.
dilwyn@ecotribal.com
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