In 2011 Eber Tocto and his three brothers took over the family farm and began cultivating coffee organically, with a strong focus on environmental conservation. Since then, all of their coffee is cultivated without the use of herbicides or pesticides.

The municipality of Chirinos is so impossibly located - on the ridge line of an Andean mountain peak - you have the feeling it was dropped right out of the sky. If the sheer drop offs on either side of the road don't convince you of the elevation, you'll surely feel the altitude in your lungs.