Peru’s High Plains

June 19, 2024 | Jerry Black | |

Peru’s high plains: A fickle climate, where frost is constant throughout the year. Our maca growers perform a millennia-old ceremony by offering prayers at the time of harvest and planting. Blessings of distilled caña, wild tobacco, and coca leaf are placed into the earth, along with a morsel of cooked maca for the mountain gods, who are sometimes jealous and stingy with their return.

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