origin stories

Ethiopia - Benti Nenka
about the region. Ethiopia is rightly celebrated for producing high quality and expressive coffees, with a history dating back to the very discovery of Arabica. Sidama and Yirgacheffe are perhaps the two most famous regions, long regarded as producing some...
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Lica Torres - Cerro Buena Vista
about the producer. Don Lica and his family began building their wet mill Cerro Buena Vista in 2015. Selling cherries to local mills had become financially unsustainable and neighbours in the small region of Pérez Zeledón in Brunca in the...
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Ethiopia - Yabitu Koba
about the region. Ethiopia is rightly celebrated for producing high quality and expressive coffees, with a history dating back to the very discovery of Arabica. Sidama and Yirgacheffe are perhaps the two most famous regions, long regarded as producing some...
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Kenya - Gikirima AA
Gikirima is one of four factories associated with the Kibugu Co-op, which has 1200 members in the Kirinyaga and Embu regions of Kenya.These smallholder farmers grow coffee in the rich volcanic soil of Mt. Kenya and cultivate a mixture of...
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