Here's what Falcon Speciality the importer of this coffee have to say about it:

Chirinos, in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, is a highland district long associated with smallholder coffee thanks to its elevation, reliable rainfall and mixed farming landscapes.

We receive small, day-to-day parchment deliveries from Chirinos into our Falcon Coffees warehouse in Jaén. Each delivery goes through physical analysis and a cupping. As soon as a lot is cupped, we make a same-day price offer to the producer and pay by instant bank transfer. This keeps feedback fast, supports cash flow on farm, and lets quality—measured in both physical and cup score—drive the price. Local warehousing in Jaén shortens the loop between delivery, evaluation and payment, strengthening our direct-sourcing relationships in northern Peru.

Falcon Coffees Peru (FCP) was set up in 2019 to work directly with farmers in the northern producing region. FCP was one of the first exporters in the region to pay quality-differentiated prices at the farm gate level. In 2022 we added exports via producer cooperatives to give buyers more reliable access to third-party certified coffees. We now operate two northern warehouses—Jaén and Moyobamba—with a 20+ person team sourcing and exporting coffee from 500+ farmers and eight cooperatives. Our sustainability team runs farmer training and productivity work alongside sourcing.

On specialty sourcing, we identify interested farmers, run on-farm baseline surveys (captured digitally via a Copera-built app), provide training workshops, and give ongoing agronomy support. We commit to buy from programme farmers and pay premiums over the local price according to the quality delivered.When working with cooperatives, we do pre-harvest due diligence and cupping calibration, approve samples before delivery and at every ~50-bag tranche, directly monitor milling, analyse and cup processed-lot samples, and typically ship within five days of milling. Most coops are within two hours of our Jaén/Moyobamba offices, enabling quick troubleshooting.

We also run multi-year projects: Falcon Specialty Plus (with responsAbility) to lift cup quality and premiums—showing a +1.32 average score gain, a peak of 88, and 107 producers enrolled to date—and a Soil Health Initiative targeting 600 farmers to improve soils, reduce chemical use, achieve GCP-equivalent certification, and generate farm-level carbon data.

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• We use recyclable & CO2 neutral packaging
• Roasted fresh every working day
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