Ethiopia: Bookkisa

The Dambi Uddo drying station, high up in the hills of Shakiso, Guji, buys cherry from roughly 100 small-holder farmers. While in Latin America a lot of farmers own more hectares with a lot of coffee trees, in Ethiopia, most growers are small landholders often harvesting coffee in their gardens, alongside crops for personal/family consumption. The average farm size is 2.5 hectares.

While this is actually larger than the average farm size in Colombia, planting is much less dense and nearly all of the production happens within a fully or semi-forested system. This means that there is much lower yield per tree and many fewer trees per hectare.

All of the cherry that is delivered to Dambi Uddo is fully organic. The cherry is separated by sub-kebele (village/community) upon delivery. This lot is from the Bookkisa sub-kebele within the Swana kebele.

The producer, Sookoo coffee, is a family owned company of Turi Waji.

Details:

• Variety: Gibirinna 74110 & Serto 74112, 100% Arabica
• Certification: organic
• Altitude: 2000 - 2150m
• Processing: natural
• Notes: red currant, strawberry, floral
• Quantity: 250 gr or 500 gr beans
• Our coffee bags are 100% recyclable, produced CO2-neutral and can be disposed of in the plastic waste (in Belgium: PMD-bag). Also check out our CoffeeVac containers, which we sell to shop without the use of packaging from us. When using this system (only possible for pick up- or personal delivery-orders), you save a discount per order.
• These beans are roasted on 100% green energy (solar and/or wind).

Foremost, we choose to supply beans. After 15 minutes the aromas of ground coffee are gone. We can grind on request, but it is not something we offer as standard. More info you can find on our blog!

On our website you can discover our range of manual and electric grinders .