This gorgeous coffee comes to us from the Layo Teraga Coffee Producers Cooperative. Founded in 1976, this cooperative provides market access for its’ smallholder farmers that would otherwise not have existed in Guji, where prices for coffee have historically been lower than neighboring Gedeo or Sidama zones because of the lack of market access.
Located in northern Uraga in the Guji zone, the 1841 smallholder members of the cooperative grow coffee in gardens around their homes in semi-forested environments at staggeringly high elevations of up to 2,342 meters above sea level. Traditional Ethiopia varieties are grown and processed as fully- washed.
This coffee is representative of our mission to find farms and mills focused on producing high quality coffee and to reward that hard work with substantial purchase price premiums. It is our belief that "the only truly sustainable coffee is good coffee. We aren't pushing toward either quality or impact; we are pushing toward both because they are the same thing."
