Coffee bag: Ethiopia Abakeno Natural by Strangers

250g - Choose your grind: state your preferred grind in the notes at checkout

Apricot Jam / Orange Blossom / Cascara

ALTITUDE - 2100 MASL

REGION - JIMMA

PROCESS - WASHED (ORGANIC)

VARIETY - HEIRLOOM

Mustefa Abakeno is a smallholder farmer who owns 18 hectares of land near to Agaro in the Jimma area of Western Ethiopia. The farm and wet mill is located 2100 masl and is planted with various variety selections from the Jimma research centre. Mustefa Abakeno has a small disk pulper, which he uses for half of his coffee, the other half is dried as a natural. Due to a lack of water in the area and limited space to ferment the coffee, Mustefa ferments the coffee for a short period of time before he moves it to his drying beds, and the result is something like a light honey process.

Mustefa has recently registered as an exporter in order to start selling his coffee directly to buyers, which he is now able to do since the changes to regulation in Ethiopia. He has set up a small wet mill where he processes his farm’s and outgrowers’ coffee, which he keeps separate and dries on raised beds near his house. Mustefa’s outgrowers are all neighbours and have between 4 and 10 hectares of land each. He is processing both natural and washed coffee and all of it is dried semi-shaded. We anticipate that Mustefa will have around 600 bags available this year, half washed and half natural.

This is the second lot we have bought from Mustefa’s farm. The first being a washed process which was harvested and dried early in the year followed by this natural lot which has taken long to produce due to the extra time needed in the fermentation stage of processing.