Farm: Various Small Holders from Idido

Producer: Ashenafi Getaneh

Region: Aricha, Yirgacheffe, Gedeo

Country: Ethiopia

Process: Red Honey

Varietals: Heirloom, 74/110, 74/112, 74/114

Elevation: 2100-2200 MASL

Roast Level: Light

Notes: Jasmine, White Grape, White Peach, Meyer Lemon

About this Lot:

Ashenafi is a hard working producer who owns a washing station and dry processing site in Aricha and Ela Telicha. He got his start in coffee back in 2005 working with washed coffees, and he expanded into natural coffee in 2010. The washing station has 2.2 hectares of space, sufficient for 240 coffee beds. He owns a coffee farm of 3.5 hectares of at Ella Telicha.

Ethiopia has a beautiful culture of giving back to one’s community, and Ashenafi is proud to give back in addition to buying coffee from small farmers. He supplies compost to local coffee growers to enhance their productivity, and he built a meeting hall at nearby Ella Telicha kebele. He also constructed three residential houses for elderly community members.

Careful harvest, ferment the pulped cherry for 14 hrs without water and put on African raised beds and well sorting before warehousing.