Ethiopia Abebe Wush Wush

We taste: cherry, chocolate syrup, almond 

The 2010 UNESCO declaration naming Ethiopia’s montane forests as biome preserves led to the adoption of a nationwide policy of participatory land management. By incentivizing the responsible economic use of forests for the purposes of agriculture—such as coffee production—the government hoped to protect and preserve remaining forests. Through this program, 50+ hectare blocks of land were set aside for development leases. This program created the farms that we now know as Kossa Geshe as well as the organic-certified farm now operated by Habtamu Abebe at 1800-2000 masl in Kaffa. When he took over management of the farm, Habtamu planted variety 74110 under the semi-forest setting. He and his wife, Hana, live in the town of Wush Wush, about 2km from the farm, in a house with a garden and Hana’s spice shop attached. Ahead of the 2023 harvest, his first trying to export his own coffee, Habtamu purchased a new Penagos ecopulper and built a washing station with poured concrete tanks. He cleans wastewater from his washing station through a lagoon system before it returns to the ground.