Ethiopia Halo Beriti Natural

ROAST LEVEL: LIGHT (FOR FILTER)

Region: Gedeo

Washing Station: Halo Beriti

Altitude: 2200 - 2300 meters above sea level

Varietal: Heirloom Yirgacheffe

Process: Natural

Sizes: 250 / 1kg

Flavours: White Peach, Jasmine, Honey

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Halo Beriti Washing Station was established in 2014 and serves 750 smallholder producers who deliver their coffee in cherry form. Natural lots are dried on raised beds for 8 - 15 days when the weather is sunny or 15 - 20 days when it is cloudy.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically traceable to the washing station level, where smallholder farmers - many of whom own less than half a hectare of land, and as little as a 1/8 hectare on average - deliver cherry by weight to receive payment at a market rate. The coffee is sorted and processed into lots without retaining information about whose coffee harvest is in which bag or which lot.

At first glance, Yirgacheffe's hills look thickly forested, but in fact it is a heavily populated region and the hills are dotted with many villages and dwellings growing 'Garden Coffee' (where coffee is is intercropped with other crops and plants). There are approximately 26 cooperatives in the region, representing some 43,794 farmers.