Ethiopia
Guji
Smallholder Producers
Smallholder Farms
Landrace and Locally Selected Varieties
Washed
November–January
Berry, Floral, Spiced
2100 meters
N/A
30 kg w/ GrainPro
APAC - Sydney - RPM
This coffee was produced by smallholder producers living near the Buku Sayisa washing station in the Buku kebele of the Hambela Wamena woreda in Ethiopia’s Guji zone. Ripe cherries were delivered by 450 producers to the washing station, which is operated by Negusse Debela’s SNAP Specialty Coffee.
Local farmers grow landrace and locally selected varieties. Cherries are manually harvested before being delivered to the washing station. This lot underwent Washed processing. Freshly harvested cherries were sorted before being pulped with a disk pulping machine. The pulped coffee was then floated to remove defective coffee, and the remainder was fermented in the water tank for 36–72 hours. The fermented coffee was then dried on raised beds for 7–10 days.
This coffee was sourced from SNAP Specialty Coffee. SNAP was established in 2008 by Negusse Debela in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The company operates three washing stations in the Gedeo zone, and are partnered with additional washing stations in Guji and West Arsi. We began our partnership with SNAP in 2022.
As the coffee industry continues to grow in Ethiopia, the country’s historic growing areas don’t always match up with the current-day maps defining Ethiopia’s geography. Our goal is to provide the clearest and most accurate information about the coffees that we offer, and we’re proud to provide the most specific location information we have for these coffees. Learn more about Ethiopia’s coffee growing regions on our blog.
Region: Oromia
Zone: Guji
Woreda: Hambela Wamena
Kebele: Buku
ECX Growing Area: Guji
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.
