JMV Usekanabagoyi

Overview  For our final washed Rwanda of the season, we’re thrilled to welcome back a single farm lot from Jean Marie Vianney (JMV) Usekanabagoyi. We’ve been consistently purchasing this coffee since 2021 when our exporting partners, Baho Coffee, first started experimenting with smaller lot separations.  This initiative immediately sparked our interest and kickstarted discussions on how to expand and deepen this type of traceability.  As buyers, it’s always exciting to find more information about where coffee is coming from; but additionally, Emmanuel made it very clear that it was helpful to Baho and their producer network as well.  It created the opportunity to directly support smallholders and hopefully motivate them to continue in specialty.  Usekanabagoyi grows Red Bourbon on his 2 hectare farm in the famed Nyamasheke district of Rwanda and delivers cherry to the Ngoma station. His coffee is kept separate throughout the entire process of sorting, drying, storing, milling, etc. No