This coffee was grown and processed by Lus Gladis Martiniez Lizana on her farm, El Pasaco. It's located in the district of Carmen de la Frontera in the province of Huancabamba, region of Piura, Peru, and was imported by our friends at Red Fox Coffee.

The area where this coffee was grown is characterized by having extremely varied altitudes, climates and terrain. In the highest part of the Andes in this region (approximately 3,000 meters or 9,800 feet above sea level) we find moors and cloud forests. Up there, it’s too cold to grow anything but potatoes and other tubers.

All this changes if we travel 2 hours north, right near the Ecuador border, into the area known as Selva Alta (high jungle). The climate here is more tropical, vegetation thickens, and agricultural products diversify. It is in this area where we find coffee and sugar cane crops, production of panela and yonque (popular alcoholic beverage in the area).

Born in the coffee producing town of Chaupe Bajo, Luz Gladis been cultivating coffee all her life. Her farm encompasses 2 hectares, all dedicated to coffee and subsistence crops like bananas and yucca for her family’s daily usage. She intersperses Caturra, Catimor and Pache varieties among shade trees including Albizia and Pacay. After processing, she loads parchment onto her truck.

Luz is a passionate coffee producer and wishes to obtain national and international recognition in the future. The name of her farm El Pasaco comes from a medicinal native tree that’s abundant in this area.