This coffee comes from the Chelchele washing station, which is in the kebele, or village, of Chelchele, in the words, or district, of Kochere, in the Yirgacheffe region.

Yirgacheffe Werka Chelchele Station is one our largest washing station. More than 500+ nearby farmers deliver cherries to the station everyday either directly or through middlemen. As shown in the picture, Farms in Yirgacheffe are referred to as Garden Coffee as they are grown on farmers backyard usually in small areas of lands. Most of the coffee goes back to Ethiopian Heirloom Varietal with some JARC 74110
& 74112.

Due to the size of the station and the good supply for cherries in nearby farms, our Chelchelle station does Washed, Natural and Special Fermentation Coffees.
The Naturals are placed on African Drying Beds after 8-12 hours of harvest and dried for 3 days under shade and 19 days without shade. This is what our manager Ali Yasin thinks is best to do in this station to have better quality while making sure cherries don’t last so long on beds to make room for newer cherries as demand is high for Chelchele, Sakaro and Danche.

The Washed Coffees are pulped and washed with clear running water, soaked in clean water from 36-48 hours before being put on drying beds to dry until moisture drops to 11.5%. This takes 7-10 days depending on the weather Typically farmers in this region don’t have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.