Cupping Notes: Milk Chocolate, Sweet Cream, Caramel, Smooth Body, Clean Finish
Grade: Women-Produced regional selection
Grower: 124 Woman members of APROCCURMA
Region: Rodriguez de Mendoza, Amazonas, Peru
Altitude: 1,500-1,800 Meters
Process: Fully Washed and Sun Dried
Varietals: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Pache, Typica
Certifications: Fairtrade® (FLO) Organic

Details: Café de Mujer is produced by 124 women members of the Asociación de Productores Cafetaleros de la Cuenca del Río Marañón (APROCCURMA). The women-led program was created to build a distinct market for coffee from farms owned or managed by women in the northern highlands of Rodríguez de Mendoza, where many families depend on coffee income.
Members typically cultivate only a few acres using organic practices. Coffee grows beneath shade trees and alongside bananas, corn and beans, linking the coffee harvest with the family's broader food production. Ripe cherries are selected by hand, then depulped, fermented, washed and sun dried in small farm-based micro-mills.
For farmers working at this scale, services beyond the farm gate are essential. APROCCURMA coordinates road and infrastructure improvements, local warehouse access, collection, traceability, quality control and preparation for export.
The cooperative also provides financing, training and technical assistance to help women improve coffee quality and farm management. By marketing their coffee collectively under a recognized women-produced program, members can build a reputation for quality and pursue stronger premiums for their certified coffee.