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Head south on the Addis Ababa-Moyale highway, keep going past Yirgacheffe and drive through the otherworldly cloud-crowned mountains of the area, and you’ll eventually make it to the bustling little town of Bule Hora. Snaking away from Bule Hora are older roads – strikingly different from, and much more challenging than, the new highway that leads to...

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Edgar Motta’s Pink Bourbon lots flourish at his farm’s 1,500 to 1,600 meters above sea level, where they produce higher cup scores and are more disease resistant. The higher quality coffee Edgar is now producing enables him to preserve the forested land on his farm by maximizing value on the existing land where he’s planted coffee. Edgar Motta inherited...

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The high elevation, fertile soil and well-defined seasons of the Mantiqueira de Minas region create the ideal environment for cultivating dense, sweet cherry at Fazenda Santa Clara. The Pereira family’s ancestors planted the first coffee trees on Fazenda Santa Clara in 1900. Since then, the family has been dedicated to coffee production. Today,...

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Gildardo is one of the newest farmers with whom Osito Colombia has been working and one of the very few new relationships amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Gildardo is also the first and only producer with whom we partner in the municipality of Paicol, in western Huila, near the shared border with Cauca. His attention to detail and eye-popping results on the...

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Oaklands Estate is one of Kenya’s oldest and largest coffee farms. Dating from colonial times, the farm was long owned by the Socfinaf Company, Kenya’s largest coffee plantation company at the time, which owned some twelve estates spread over 37,960 acres. The company, for many years, was one of only three licensed milling agents in Kenya and had...