Ismael Aredo - Kayon Mountain - Guji, Ethiopia

About Kayon Mountain

The notable Kayon Mountain Coffee Farm is one of the most well known and well respected specialty coffee farms in Ethiopia. It was established in 2012 by Ismael Aredo and is a family run business who have embedded themselves as one of the best organic coffee farms in the Guji region. The farm sits on 500 hectares of land with 200 hectares remaining as a protected indigenous forest. 

WTF is Heirloom Coffee?

Ethiopia is said to be the birthplace of coffee although some might argue Yemen to be that. Since Ethiopia has had coffee cultivated for hundreds of years with no outside varieties interfering with the native ones, thousands of unique Ethiopian varieties exist under the umbrella term of Heirloom. In the 1970s Coffee Berry Disease (CBD) swept through and killed off tens of thousands of plants taking a massive dent on the production of coffee in Ethiopia. The Jimma Agricultural Research Center (JARC) began to develop varieties such as 74112 and 74158 specifically for it's resistance to CBD and are currently the most cultivated varieties grown in Ethiopia.

notes: loquats, blueberry, animal crackerz

varietals: heirloom

elevation: 1900m-2200m

processing: natural