Producers: Gloria and Jarmo Gummerus
Farm: Chepsangor Hills, Sakami farm
MASL: 1800
Processing: Washed
Variety: Batian
HIBISCUS, STRAWBERRY, BLUEBERRY, CRISP, JUICY
Gloria and her partner Jarmo planted their first trees in 2010 and Jarmo knew they had to find a market outside Kenya perhaps internationally. They were well aware they did not want to compete with big players. So, they didn’t want to trade in Kenya . As their coffees were growing, they started their next quest - to find a viable market. They began going to coffee expos to hand out samples to potential buyers, only to notice some of them would have left these sample bags behind without caring much for it!
As it is an unwritten rule in the coffee industry - courses, lectures, expos and competitions are the way to be recognized on the market. Over the years, Gloria took a lot of courses focused on green coffee and Q grading and she and Jarmo eventually met Lennart of This Side Up who's been importing their coffees to Europe as part of their Sakami project in Kenya.
Only fully ripe cherries are accepted for pulping, each cherry is hand picked by our dedicated women, up to over 100 during picking season. All this is done at our farm and only dry milling is so far done with commercial millers. In near future Sakami intends to get dry milling equipment at the farm, to have 100% control of each green bean leaving the farm and being able to offer full growing and processing information for each bag.
- This Side Up & Jokes Aside Coffee Roasters