Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 1 Halo Hartume
This coffee was produced in one of Ethiopia’s most famous coffee growing regions. The Gedeo zone is a small section of Ethiopia’s southern highland plateau dense with experienced farmers. Gedeo is referred to as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s noted central district. Gedeb, however, is a terroir of coffee and a community all its own. Halo Hartume is a small municipality very close to the city of Gedeb and is one of the most recently established individual cooperatives that make up the well known Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). Worka is one of the primary cooperatives that together make up the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). The Union, first established In 2002, has more than 45,000 individual farmer members and 28 different cooperatives across Gedeo Zone, almost all of which are Fair Trade certified.
Grower: Smallholder farmers organized around the Halo Hartume Coffee Farmers Cooperative
Region: Halo Hartume community, Gedeb woreda, Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia
Elevation: 1800-2200 masl
Process: Washed
Varietal: Indigenous regional heirloom cultivars
Certification: Organic
Flavor profile: Cream, dark berries - lightly fruited, clean
This coffee was produced in one of Ethiopia’s most famous coffee growing regions. The Gedeo zone is a small section of Ethiopia’s southern highland plateau dense with experienced farmers. Gedeo is referred to as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s noted central district. Gedeb, however, is a terroir of coffee and a community all its own. Halo Hartume is a small municipality very close to the city of Gedeb and is one of the most recently established individual cooperatives that make up the well known Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). Worka is one of the primary cooperatives that together make up the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). The Union, first established In 2002, has more than 45,000 individual farmer members and 28 different cooperatives across Gedeo Zone, almost all of which are Fair Trade certified.
Grower: Smallholder farmers organized around the Halo Hartume Coffee Farmers Cooperative
Region: Halo Hartume community, Gedeb woreda, Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia
Elevation: 1800-2200 masl
Process: Washed
Varietal: Indigenous regional heirloom cultivars
Certification: Organic
Flavor profile: Cream, dark berries - lightly fruited, clean
This coffee was produced in one of Ethiopia’s most famous coffee growing regions. The Gedeo zone is a small section of Ethiopia’s southern highland plateau dense with experienced farmers. Gedeo is referred to as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s noted central district. Gedeb, however, is a terroir of coffee and a community all its own. Halo Hartume is a small municipality very close to the city of Gedeb and is one of the most recently established individual cooperatives that make up the well known Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). Worka is one of the primary cooperatives that together make up the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU). The Union, first established In 2002, has more than 45,000 individual farmer members and 28 different cooperatives across Gedeo Zone, almost all of which are Fair Trade certified.
Grower: Smallholder farmers organized around the Halo Hartume Coffee Farmers Cooperative
Region: Halo Hartume community, Gedeb woreda, Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia
Elevation: 1800-2200 masl
Process: Washed
Varietal: Indigenous regional heirloom cultivars
Certification: Organic
Flavor profile: Cream, dark berries - lightly fruited, clean