FEATURE FILTER | NAFUNA (Coffee Pulp Ferment) | Uganda

About this coffee

*Jackie began her journey with us as a day labourer and we immediately could see her potential. Now, during the harvest season, Jackie supervises up to 50 workers at the station, ensuring the meticulous sorting, drying and tracking of each batch of coffee. In the off-season, Jackie is tasked with training farmers and collecting data. A few years ago, Jackie purchased her own land and planted coffee, which she now delivers to the station for processing.

The Coffee Gardens project was established in 2017 by three friends - Dana, Michael and Shak - with the goal to produce specialty coffee in an ethical way, offering a transparent and direct link between our coffee farmers and coffee drinkers. Initially working with only 1 farming family in their first years, the operation quickly grew and now they work with over 600 growing families.

Quality is our reason for being. It allows us to pay farmers high prices and still invest in agricultural, social and environmental activities. Of course, the foundation of a good coffee is fresh, red, ripe cherries full of sugars to feed the fermentation process. In a time of intense price volatility, we work hard to create the right incentives so farmers decide to deliver only red cherries day after day. We also have rigorous sorting protocols in place starting in farmers’ gardens, and at every stage from our buying centres, throughout processing and all the way to export preparation.

VarietalSL14, SL28 & Nyasaland Process: Cherry Pulp Co-Ferment; de-pulped with the removed skin (pulp) added back into the fermentation tank, fermented for 23hr before being dried on raised beds in a covered solar dryer