Ethiopia Tesfaye Bekele

$18.25/lb $12.19/10oz (MSRP - $23.90) $40.15/Kilo $91.25/5lb Guji, Ethiopia Connect Tesfaye Bekele’s coffee comes to us from the renowned Guji zone of Ethiopia. In 1997, Tesfaye started his professional career working in Natural Resource Management for Ethiopia’s government, overseeing the Guji region. At that time, Guji was recovering from widespread wildfires that destroyed 5000 acres of land. Tesfaye’s solution to both revitalize and repopulate the scorched earth involved a combination of planting native trees and coffee plants. After several seasons of slow traction, Tesfaye decided to resign from his governmental job and focus all his energy into creating the Suke Quto washing station. He believed that doing this would offer the community a means to rebuild their livelihood while allowing him to work directly with the local community.  His idea flourished, and now the Suke Quto farm brings in coffee from 287 local producers as well as processing Tesfaye’s own harvest. He forms pa