This is a smallholder-grown, centrally processed natural from western Guji zone. The Hambela district is well-known for excellent coffees and this lot, harvested in Buku Sayasa and processed at a nearby processing station in Chelchele, is no exception.

Ethiopia’s Guji zone is a distant and heavily forested swath of land stretching southeast through the lower corner of the massive Oromia region. Guji is heavy with primary forest thanks to the Guji tribe, a part of Ethiopia’s vast and diverse Oromo nation, who have for generations organized and legislated to reduce mining and logging outfits in their area, in a struggle to conserve the land’s sacred canopy. Compared to other coffee-heavy regions, large parts of Guji feel like prehistoric backwoods. Coffee farms in many parts of Guji begin at 2000 meters in elevation and tend to climb from there. The highland farming communities in this part of the country can be at turns Edenic in their natural purity, and startlingly remote.

Origin Information

Grower

Smallholder farmers organized around EDN Ethiopia coffee

Region

Buku Sayasa community, Hambela District, Guji Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Variety

Local arabica landraces and heirloom cultivars

Harvest

November - January

Altitude

1900 - 2300 masl

Soil

Vertisol

Process

Full natural