Ethiopia Guji Natural Organic Kanyon Mountain

About this coffee Grower Kayon Mountain Coffee Farm PLC Altitude 1800 – 2100 masl Variety Indigenous cultivars 74110 and 74112 Soil Sandy loam Region Odo Shakiso District, Guji Zone, Oromia Region Process Full natural and dried on raised beds Harvest October – January Certification Organic   There are few entrances to Guji--a distant and heavily forested swath of land stretching southeast through the lower corner of the massive Oromia region--and none of these routes are short, or for the queasy, in any way. Guji is heavy with primary forest thanks to the Guji tribe, a part of Ethiopia’s vast and diverse Oromo nation, who have for generations organized and legislated to reduce mining and logging outfits in their area, in a struggle to conserve the land’s sacred canopy. Compared to other coffee-heavy regions, large parts of Guji feel like prehistoric backwoods. Coffee farms in many parts of Guji begin at 2000 meters in elevation and tend to climb from the