From Smallholder Farmers

Sumaq Foods is a direct trade network of smallholder farmers in Perú, Costa Rica, and Colombia. We partner with smallholder farmers to build a transparent bridge through an integrated system that shares knowledge, assistance in all areas of supply chain, promotes fair value, and opens up market access to help empower smallholder farming communities.

It's more than just supplying high quality superfoods, it's about building thriving smallholder farmer communities.  Smallholder farmers are the essential foundation to sustainable farming who carefully cultivate their farms with pride.  We have built a transparent bridge through an integrated system that shares fair value, knowledge, assistance in all levels of supply chain, and access to markets to help empower smallholder farming communities.  

Smallholder farmers are eager to develop enduring relationships with someone they can trust and receive new knowledge from. 

Over the years we took the time to build those relationships especially in isolated areas.  These remote locations were often overlooked by large cooperatives, but we found building these relationships allowed us to build a bridge of accessibility to higher grade flavor profiles of produce preserved in more favorable climates and rich soil. ​

Smallholder farmers are limited by funds and are often forced to concede to the politics of large cooperatives who control trade and influence in the area. That's when we knew we had to do something and created a network of assistance providing assistance in the entire supply chain including cultivation techniques, cataloguing produce, technical analysis, access to credit, packaging, logistics, import/export, tracking, customs clearance and delivery.​

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Cultivated with Care

Quality