Peruvian Carbon Neutral Coffee
Regular price $14.49
The World's First Carbon Neutral Coffee!
[Roast Level] Light*
[Region] Amazonian Highlands, Peru
[Cooperative] PANGOA
[Partners Since] 2003
[Altitude] 1200-1800M
[Varietal] Caturra, Typica, Bourbon, Catimor
[Processing Method] Fully Washed
*You may have noticed that this coffee is now listed as a light instead of medium roast. We haven't changed anything about the roast (I repeat: nothing has changed!), we are just recategorizing it to more accurately reflect it's roast level.
We’ve collaborated with this community to design and implement the following initiatives:
- Reforestation Program - with over 300,000 trees planted to date, this program makes a Carbon Negative company
- Obtained Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Bird-Friendly Coffee Certificate
- Women's Loan Fund
Read more below...
We took a chance on Pangoa, a small coop on the Amazonian slopes of Central Peru back in 2003, being their first Fair Trade and Direct buyer. Since then, we have introduced this coffee to the specialty marketplace, and the sweet, soft beans prepared so well by indigenous Ashaninkas farmers have been in great demand in America and in Europe. We continue to enjoy the best of their crop in return for our long-term commitment.
Pangoa and Dean's Beans have collaborated on the creation of many meaningful and successful initiatives together over the years. The coop has used our premiums, profit shares and development monies to create womens loan funds, a great reforestation program, a honey project for income diversification, college education funds and more!
Peru is the forgotten child of the specialty coffee world. It is a huge country, so much so that the growing seasons differ by a month or so even within the same country. Peruvian coffees are notable for their mildness and sweetness, even though they are grown at really high altitudes on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes. They are better in a light roast than a dark roast, as the flavor and mild acidity roast away quickly. But a soft, sweet Peru is a subtle charm and can really be appreciated if you take your time with it. One of the most easily drinkable coffees black. Wonderful coffees come from Chanchamayo, Pangoa, and Lamas.
"Restoring the Sacred" Reforestation Project (2006-ongoing)
- Building nurseries and planting native trees to combat deforestation
- 300,000 native trees planted
- Enough trees planted to offset all carbon emissions created by all of Dean's Beans, making us a Carbon Negative company!
- Obtained Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Bird-Friendly certification
- Funding commitment to date: $19,500
Women's Loan Fund (2009-ongoing)
- Offers credit to female coop members for income generating projects
- Funding commitment to date: $10,000
Latrine Program (2009-ongoing)
- Funding modern bathroom construction on farms in Pangoa
- Funding commitment to date: $7,000
English Teaching Program (2012-ongoing)
- Program sends interns to teach English
- Funding commitment to date: $1,000
GM Esperanza Castillo Support (2009-ongoing)
- Sponsoring Coop General Manager travel to international events, in order to speak about supporting women in the coffee industry
Past Projects
New Honey Business (2004)
- Worked with Pangoa to create a honey product for local sale and distribution to help supplement farmers' income
- Funding commitment: $2,700
First Fair Trade Buyer in Pangoa (2003)
