Organic Fair Trade Ethiopia Oromia Natural
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Organic Fair Trade Ethiopia Oromia Natural
Origin: Ethiopia
Organic Ethiopia Oromia comes to us from our good friends at Royal Coffee in Emeryville, CA. Grown in Oromia, a regional state in Ethiopia, this coffee is unique for a few reasons. The coffee is processed as a natural, or dried in the fruit coffee. When prepared well, this method gives coffee a unique fruit forward profile. Here’s what Royal has to say about
Oromia Coffee
Farmers
Cooperative
Union
(OCFCU)'
s coffee:
“
The Oromia
R
egion
al State
is Ethiopia’s largest,
including more than 110,000 square miles and 35 million people. It
touches the borders of both Kenya to the south and South Sudan to the west, and includes Ethiopia’s
massive capital city, Addis Ababa
, along with 65% of Ethiopia coffee growing territory, as of
2014
.
There are a number of famous coffee regions
included
in
full or in part
in
Oromia
:
Jimma
and
Illubabor
in the west;
Harar to the northeast
;
Arsi
, bordering
Sidama
in the mid-south
,
which produces many similar terroirs
; and the
Guji
Zone,
where Royal also works with a diversity of
forward-thinking
growers and processors.
T
he Oromia Coffee
Farmers
Cooperative
Union
(OCFCU)
is
an umbrella organization
established
in
1999
by 34 individual cooperatives interested in centralizing resources and gaining leverage in the export market
.
As of 2020,
OCFCU supports
more than 400 individual
cooperatives
--
more than
400,000 households, by far the largest unionization of farmers in the country.
Premiums from coffee exports are returned directly to farmers, and
the union
also fund
s
organic farming programs, mill equipment purchases, and food security programs. OCFCU has established a central cupping lab to support quality control and
is
a founding shareholder
in its
members’ bank
, the Cooperative Bank of Oromia,
that provides pre-harvest financing
and crop insurance
; both resources historically unavailable to rural farmers in Ethiopia.
OCFCU has been Fairtrade and Organic certified since 2002 and
ever since has
been
one of the world’s largest suppliers of Fairtrade coffee.
”
On the cupping table, this coffee greeted us with its intense notes of
apricot, blackberry, lemon, blueberry
and clean, lively acidity. This medium-light roast is delicious in all brewing methods, but really stands out as a filter coffee.
OCFCU
’s coffee is loaded with baked brown sugar and berry, and we’re extremely excited to share it with you.
All orders placed by 5am PST will roast and ship the same business day. All orders placed after 5am PST will roast and ship the following business day.
SPECIFICATIONS
ORIGIN //
Ethiopia
REGION //
Oromia Region, Ethiopia
FARM + PRODUCER //
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative
TASTE //
Baked Brown Sugar + Berry + Caramel
PROCESS //
Full natural and dried on raised beds
ALTITUDE //
1550 – 2200 masl
HARVEST //
October – December
VARIETAL //
Indigenous heirloom cultivars
CERTIFICATIONS //
Fair Trade (FT FLO/USA) | Organic
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