Ethiopia
Guji
Smallholder Producers
Smallholder Farms
Heirloom
Natural
October–February
Berries, Honey, Milk Chocolate, Plum
2000 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
USA - Charleston, SC - RPM
USA - New Jersey - CTI
EU - Hamburg, Germany - Schwarze
USA - Auburn, WA - Green Room
UK - Bury St Edmunds - Vollers
USA - Oakland, CA - Annex - CTI
Named for Ethiopia’s national tree, Ally’s Acacia Core Coffee comes from smallholder farmers in the Guji region of Ethiopia. The sweet, fruity profile of Ethiopia Acacia Natural is selected to represent the classic flavors of some of Ethiopia’s best recognized coffee producing regions. Our Core Coffees reflect the work of whole communities, and the Ethiopia Acacia Natural is produced by the smallholder farmers who characterize the coffee production landscape of Ethiopia.
In these southern regions of Ethiopia farmers pick coffee selectively, harvesting only ripe cherries individually by hand. Pickers rotate among the trees every eight to ten days, choosing only the cherries which are at peak ripeness. Natural processed coffee is transferred directly to raised drying beds. The ripe cherries are turned constantly as they dry in the sun.
Learn more about Ethiopia’s many coffee growing regions, and some of the varieties grown across the country.
Read more about our Core Coffee program.
Guji is a zone in the Oromia Region of southern Ethiopia. Most residents of this region are Oromo and speak the Oromo language, which is entirely different from Ethiopia’s main language of Amharic. Like many of the country’s coffee growing regions, the culture of the Guji Zone varies from woreda to woreda and speaks to the diversity of people who cultivate coffee. More small washing stations are being built in Guji to respond to the demand for improvements in processing to fully capture the range of attributes found in Ethiopian coffee. The zone’s principal fresh water source is the Ganale Dorya river, which also acts as the boundary line with the neighboring Bale zone to the east.
To the west, Guji borders the southern Gedeb woreda of the Gedeo Zone in the neighboring Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region, part of the Yirgacheffe coffee growing area.
