ORIGIN + VARIETY: SINGLE PRODUCER - Rwanda + Red Bourbon
TASTING NOTES: milk chocolate + field berries
ROAST: Light
PRODUCERS: Ikizere Women Producers (for the natural) + smallholder farmers for rest
FARM: smallholder farms working together
REGION: Southern Nyaruguru District
ALTITUDE: 1535-1900 masl
PROCESS: Washed / Natural
GRIND: Whole Bean, Filter, French Press and Espresso/Moka Pot.
More about the Ikizere Women Group (who grow the natural portions of this coffee):
The Fugi Ikizere group is made up of single mothers, many of whom are widowed, and face the difficult task of navigating a Rwandese society that still struggles with much patriarchal discrimination.
The Ikizere lots represent farmgate prices (what is actually paid to the farmers) that are 50% more than the national average. In order to make an even deeper impact, the women of Ikizere also depulp their coffees by hand together so that they can connect and bond over the similar difficulties many face.
With income from this coffee, Baho Coffee who oversees the processing station and helps support the growers, paid the Ikizere women the highest price of cherries in the country.
