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 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 production 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 gesha seeds imported directly from Panama. From those initial seeds he only managed to get seven productive plants but once these were mature enough he took seeds from them and was able to plant an entire hectare of Gesha.
