Ethiopia Guji Suke Quto G1 – Natural

BEAN INFORMATION
A heroic tale of a coffee farmer, Tesfaye, with a dream to grow specialty coffee under the shade of the forest canopy in and around his small 5 hectare farm, finding success in high-quality coffee. Some time after Tesfaye founded Suke Quto in 2005, a large amount of the surrounding forest was consumed by a fire, leaving his farm and neighboring land threatened by soil erosion and eventual desertification. This was exacerbated by many of his neighbors choosing to plant corn and teff in the fields destroyed by the fire. Tesfaye decided that the only way out of this environmental predicament was to turn his neighbors into ecologically friendly coffee farmers by giving them, in addition to his expertise, shade and coffee tree seedlings. Today, in addition to his now 221 hectare strong farm, he has over 150 neighbors delivering prime organic coffee cherry to his mill for processing.