Suke Quto
£0.04 / Pricing
ETHIOPIA
Tesfaye Bekele
Organic Certification
GB-ORG-04
Mixed peel, jasmine, bright acidity, fresh body, light roast
About
Tesfaye Bekele established Suke Quto in 2005 with five hectares of planted with coffee, all grown under an established forest canopy. The farm now has 221 hectares of coffee, and another 150 small-holding farmers deliver their coffee to the farm for processing. After a bushfire in the area, Tesfaye distributed coffee and shade-tree seeds to the farmers and helped reestablish the natural forest. Like all organic farmers, Tesfaye spends a lot of time working on and improving his organic mulch. This rich combination of leaf-litter, residue from shade-trees and coffee trees, as well as pulp from the coffee processing, provides the coffee trees with ample nutrients. Tesfaye has spent the last few years establishing his coffee-tree nursery where young plants are brought on from seed until they are ready to be planted out. The process could be described as almost fully circular, from seedlings to trees to pulp and pruning to mulch and back to the trees again.