After 8.5 years of involvement and 3 project phases (initialisation, expansion and business development), our project in Peru will come to an end in September 2011. From a humble start in 2003 with a handful of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), the project has helped to build a fully-fledged cooperative that operates independently in the upper segments of the international coffee market. In this article we will look at the journey of the producers and the project team.