Region: El Huabo, San Ignacio, Cajamarca
Elevation: 1755 masl
About: High in the remote hills near the Ecuadorian border—over 40 hours from Lima by road—Esperanza Armijos and Maximiliano García have carved out a life and a legacy. After 15 years working with Peru’s renowned Cenfrocafe cooperative, they left to pursue their dream: building something of their own.
In 2018, they founded Café Garmas, a name that fuses their surnames and reflects their deep, equal partnership. Everything they do—planting, harvesting, processing—is shared work. Their farm is a family affair, rooted in tradition and driven by vision.
The land they farm is hard-won and breathtaking, a place of arid heat and high elevation that produces coffees with rare, vivid character. Here, they grow a mix of prized varieties—Geisha, Parainema, Yellow Caturra, and the Bourbon in this lot.
Despite the distance and difficulty, buyers make the journey because the results are worth it: Café Garmas consistently produces coffees scoring 86+—a testament not just to their terroir, but to the skill, care, and quiet determination of two people shaping a future together, bean by bean.
