Ethiopia
Yirgacheffe
Small holder producers
Small holder farmers
Landrace and locally selected varieties
Black Honey
November -January
Cotton Candy, Grape, Dried Apple, Fresh Herbs, Juicy Mandarin, Orange
2300 meters
N/A
60 kg
SOLD OUT
Established in 2023, the washing station owned by Nigusse Debela/SNAP spans 2 hectares and processes up to 300,000 red cherries annually, equivalent to two containers. The station sources coffee from 200 smallholder farmers across nearby kebeles, including Aricha, Idido, Gerse, and Harobedame, and features 80 raised drying beds.
Using the natural process, cherries are carefully sorted after harvest, washed, and floated before being sun-dried with the skins intact. They are turned regularly until they reach 12% moisture. After drying, the outer layers are removed mechanically, and the green coffee is stored before export.
Yirgacheffe Literally translated as “Land of Many Springs,” Yirgacheffe has the ideal topography, elevation, and water sources to produce and process exceptional coffees. Yirgacheffe is a coffee classification in the Ethiopia coffee market. It is also one of the woredas in the Gedeo zone, a district like a municipality or county that includes many towns of South Ethiopia Region (formerly Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region-SNNPR).
Coffee farmers in Yirgacheffe are typically multi-generational small-scale landholders, sometimes farming only a few acres. Most coffees in Yirgacheffe are sold as cherry to centralized washing stations that help further separate flavor profiles.
Yirgacheffe is considered by many to be the birthplace of coffee and the coffee trees grown in the region are a naturally occurring mix of heirloom varieties cultivated among other species in coffee gardens and coffee forests. As part of the Gedeo Zone, Yirgacheffe is bordered to the south by Kochere, to the west by the Oromia Zone, to the north by Wenago, and to the east by Bule.