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Uraga is a resourceful area with very fertile land, great coffee and a flourishing mining business. Most of the coffee trees in this area are pretty young and their varieties are usually 74410 & 74412. These two varieties have shown...
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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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about the producer. The Zelaya family trace their coffee history back to the late 1800s, when Luis Pedro Aguirre acquired Hacienda Carmona and began planting Arabica varieties. Soon afterwards, in 1918, Guatemala began exporting coffee for the first time and...
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about the region. Brazil is by far the world’s largest coffee producing country - growing more Arabica than the next 7 largest producers combined. For the most part Brazil is known for classic, crowd pleasing taste profiles - think chocolate...
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ABOUT THE REGION Ethiopia, the birthplace of Arabica, is known for high quality and expressive coffees. Sidama, one the country’s Southern growing regions, has defined many coffee drinkers’ understanding of specialty coffee, none more than the ‘Sidama natural’ which has...
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