Ethiopia Aricha Natural Grade 1

Story

Indulge in the unique character of our Yirgacheffe. From the rich soils of Ethiopian family farms to the careful hands at Aricha, every bean is selected for peak flavor. Taste the difference of directly sourced, perfectly crafted coffee.

Yirgacheffe Ethiopia is notable for small family farms, growing coffee in small garden plots or farms averaging less than 3 hectares (about 7 acres). Coffee washing stations and natural coffee processing sites like Aricha provide a critical service to these farmers, allowing them to sell their cherries locally and access to quality measures like a local agronomist. Mebrahtu Aynalem, who founded Aricha along with Abyote Ageze and local farmers, describes it best:

Before the harvest, we train them [the farmers] and explain the standards of cherry collection for specialty coffee and the premiums that come with it. We have a quality supervisor at the washing stations looking into who is bringing good quality and who isn’t.

This is no small undertaking. Aricha has over 220 raised African beds to manage coffee drying from more than 1500 growers who sell their coffee to the enterprise.