Farm: Buku Abel
Producer: Esayas Beriso & Meskerem Tomas
Purchasing relationship: 1 years
Region: Buku, Hambela Wamena, West Guji Zone, Oromia
Altitude: 2000-2350 masl, 6.0°N
Buku is one of the highest elevated coffee growing areas in Ethiopia with a peak altitude of 2‘350 masl, where this coffee is grown and prepared.
When Esayas Beriso was still working a government office job, he and his brothers started a business by collecting coffee cherries from smallholder farmers in the region to transport and sell them to local wet mills. He began to plant and cultivate some coffee trees on the side around this time. Along with his wife Meskerem Tomas, who manages the harvest at the farm, he became a full-time coffee producer in 2009, and left his job. Today, their farm is around 31 hectares in size and besides the coffee they grow themselves, they also work with green coffee they buy from smallholder farmers in the surrounding area.
To process their washed coffees, they use a wet mill of SNAP Coffee, who they work with to export their coffee. In the future, they would like to build their own wet mill at some point in the future. Their naturals, however, are processed on their own farm already.
