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We got this coffee for the fourth year already from This Side Up. Abakundakawa Rushashi became This Side Up’s first partner in 2013. With a water- and energy saving triple fermentation method, advanced pulp recycling methods and two women empowerment organisations, Rushashi coffee washing station (CWS) is truly progressive. TSU created the...

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Thunguri Factory (the name for wet mills in Kenya) receives cherry from 1,095+ producers who farm on the land surrounding the factory in Karatina, Kirinyaga County. Thunguri Factory is managed by Kibirigwi Farmers’ Cooperative Society. Smallholders handpick ripe cherry and deliver it to the factory that...

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Producers working with Inconexus’ Guacharos program receive higher prices for their coffees and support healthier, more sustainable farms. Founded in 2014, Inconexus’s Guacharos program – named after a bird species indigenous to Central and South America – helps farmers improve coffee quality while protecting the environment. Their goal is to new, more...

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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...