We have partnered for more than a decade with the Quechua speaking communities who grow our organic maca roots and Quinua in the high Peruvian Andes.  We pay a floor price, which is above market price, for the maca roots. This allows the peasant producers with only a small land base to purchase basic necessities such as food which cannot be locally grown, clothing, transportation, school materials for their children and to live with dignity. Paying by a Fair Trade price has also permitted enough savings for a land-poor maca-growing community to build a low-heat solar dryer for drying the maca roots with technical assistance and an interest-free loan provided by our parent company Brown Mountain Harvest.