Ethiopia Dry Process Guji Goro

This dry process lot is from Goro station, located just a short jaunt from Hambela Wamena, where a good portion of our Guji coffee comes from. The site sits at around 2100 meters above sea level, with coffee planted between 1900 and 2300 meters. These lots are made up from the coffees of hundreds of local farmers who have very small plots of coffee, most with less than 2 hectares of planted land. Farmers deliver their coffee to stations like Goro, where it is bought as ripe cherry, and then processed down to the green seed. This is a dry process coffee, but Goro also has a wet mill for wet proces coffee too. For dry process coffee, they sort out as much of the unripe coffee as they can before sending to the drying tables where it takes 2-3 weeks to dry. We visited several stations run by this group, however Goro was not one of them. Their stations are all very well organized, both in terms of tracking payments to he farmers they buy from, and in their reinvestment in maintaining their processing equipment and drying beds. They also promote sustainable farming methods to the farmers they buy from, like tree stumping, organic compost, and not using fungicides on the coffee trees.