Peru La Palma 2025

Miguel Lopez is a second generation coffee farmer from La Palma, Chirinos. Aside from being a farmer, Miguel is a professional coffee taster and works in a local cooperative in quality control. Being able to taste his own coffee helps Miguel maintain a high standard from his farm, producing some of the best geisha in the country. Miguel’s father, Noé, moved to Chirinos as a young man in search of a better life and dreamed of owning his own land. After some years working in farms he managed to buy a large plot of land which he turned into pasture land and also planted some coffee. Miguel had a passion for coffee from a young age and his father supported him by helping him get a job in the local cooperative in Chirinos. After a number of years learning about coffee tasting and trying different coffees, Miguel decided to plant his own farm, with the help of the cooperative (la Prosperidad de Chirinos) Miguel got hold of some original geisha seeds imported directly from Panama. From those seeds he managed to get only seven productive plants, and once they were old enough he took seeds from those plants and planted one hectare of Geisha.