Ethiopia
Guji
Bette Buna
Bette Buna Farm
JARC varieties, 74112 + Enat Buna (wild varieties)
Natural
November–January
Blackberry, Coffee Blossom, Juicy Lemon & Lime, Red Grape, Red Wine
2098 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
EU - Hamburg, Germany - Schwarze
UK - Bury St Edmunds - Vollers
Bette Buna is a vertically integrated coffee company founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife Dawit and Hester. Their coffee journey began following the passing of Dawit’s grandfather, who farmed coffee with his wife, Emame, in Tefari Kela, Sidama for nearly a century. Dawit and Hester took over operations at the family farm committed to the mission of creating equal opportunities for coffee communities through the production of outstanding coffee. Today, Bette Buna operates farms in the coffee growing regions of Guji, Yirgacheffe, Sidama, and Bench Maji, as well as sourcing coffee from allied farmers throughout these regions.
This coffee is a single farm lot sourced from Bette Buna’s farm in the Megadu woreda of Ethiopia’s Guji zone. The farm covers 220 hectares of land, and is divided into plots of semi-forest and wild forest with coffee planted throughout. Employees at the farm are a mixture of full-time and seasonal employees totaling 850 people who are responsible for harvesting, sorting, and processing each lot. In addition to providing a living wage for the employees, Bette Buna also provides weekly transportation to the relatively remote farm, housing, meals, and satellite education for employee’s children who travel with their parents to the farm during the busy season.
This coffee underwent Natural Anaerobic processing. The coffee cherries are floated and washed with fresh water but are not depulped, allowing the full fruit to remain intact. They are then transferred into a tank fitted with an air valve. Inside the sealed tank, fermentation begins naturally with the yeasts and microorganisms present on the cherries. As the process develops, oxygen is gradually expelled, creating an anaerobic environment ideal for controlled fermentation. Once fermentation is complete, the cherries are rinsed again with clean water and moved to the solar dryer. Drying begins on a ceramic patio and is completed on layered beds within the solar dryer, allowing for slow, even moisture reduction and preserving the coffee’s unique characteristics.
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: Megadu
Kebele: –
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.
