Tunsisa

Daniel Tunsisa grows coffee in fertile land on the edge of the Harenna forest national park, at over 2200 masl in the Sidama region. He is located near the village of Chire, where we have purchased lots from several local washing stations in the past, but Daniel’s coffee is rather different. He inherited his 6 hectare plot from his father, a huge amount of land in a landscape dominated by smallholder farmers. Here, Daniel runs his business more like small producers we work with in the Americas, with trees of the locally distributed 74110 and 74112 varietals planted, and a workforce of around 45 people during peak harvest, many of them smallholder coffee farmers themselves.

They process all of the coffee here as naturals, without any of the infrastructure required to produce washed coffees. Daniel himself acted as the exporter of this coffee to La Cabra in Denmark and the USA, the first time he has been able to export directly.