Ethiopia Konga (Natural)

12oz Tropical candy, ripe berry, black tea Region: Konga, Gedeo Zone, Yirgacheffe Producer: Local producers surrounding the Konga washing station Coop: Many smallholder farms Varietal: Indigenous heirloom cultivars Process: Natural Yirgacheffe is in Southern Ethiopia, South of the capital city of Addis Ababa and completely within the larger area of Sidamo. Despite its small size, Yirgacheffe is highly prized for the quality of the coffee produced there. Producers in the region often cultivate “coffee gardens,” with farms of 0.5-1.5 hectare and interplant their coffee with other cash crops like bananas. There are over 43,000 coffee producers in Yirgacheffe who cultivate around 62,000 hectares of land, much of which is over 2,000 meters above sea level.  Our supplier for this lot, YKM Coffee Trading, has three generations of coffee growers over 54 years, starting before any coffee processing machines were used in the country. Now they operate 3 washing stations and 6 sun-drying stations