In Peru, we cultivate our own Maca root without chemicals at 14,000 feet elevation in the mineral-rich highlands of Peru’s Altiplano! Our fields are naturally irrigated by glacial ice-melt and rainfall born in the thunderclouds of the Amazon basin. The result is Maca root, incomparable in potency, freshness and flavor!
Today, Herbs America supports traditional agrarian families and promotes sustainable agricultural practices with a portion of each sale. We are motivated by a belief that it is the land, and our relationship to it, that subsequently empowers our cultivated products and ultimately makes them better.
PURITY — We raise our own Maca root without chemicals at 14,000 feet elevation in the mineral-rich highlands of Peru’s Altiplano. Our fields are naturally irrigated by glacial ice-melt and rainfall generated over the Amazon basin. The result is 100% pure Maco root, the way nature intended.
QUALITY — Because our Maca root is grown in its natural setting, the potency, flavor and freshness are incomparable. From field to market place in record time insures the freshest, tastiest maca available.
PHILOSOPHY — Herbs America is motivated by a belief that it is the land, and our relationship to it, that empowers our cultivated products and makes them better. We are committed to Free Trade and support traditional agrarian families in Peru to promote sustainable agricultural practices with a portion of each sale. In continuing our high standards, we oversee the entire process from the planting of the seeds to the packing of each product.
14,000 feet in the Andes, Maca cultivation hit its pinnacle almost a thousand years ago. The rugged terrain and remote locations are some of the most difficult farm lands on earth.
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.
A troubled battle over the maca farm land arises in 1999. Here, a historical footnote in the balance of power as politicians battle over rights to the world maca exports. Here, Eng. De Las Casa, the Minister of Agriculture bans the export of whole maca root from Peru in a declaration that left poor maca farmers in turmoil and put the control of the world maca harvest into the hands of a few influential companies who had direct ties to the Fujimori government (now exiled to Japan) and under house arrest in Santiago, Chile.
Sustainable harvest for generations. In Peru, our goals are simple: to produce pure foods that change peoples lives and to support farmers who work in harmony with the environment.
Maca dancers come out every year in festive costume to celebrate the resurgence of maca as a national crop that is changing their economy.
The momentum continues at the ceremonies in the highlands of Peru. The festivities denote the popular resurgence of maca cultivation and its growing use among the women of the Andes to treat hormonal imbalances.
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Lonnysays
I’ve seen this last year . We were invited to plant actual maca seed. Our tour agent gave some offerings we put into a pit or fire
. we were supposed to dig up but I didn’t try it
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I’ve seen this last year . We were invited to plant actual maca seed. Our tour agent gave some offerings we put into a pit or fire
. we were supposed to dig up but I didn’t try it